We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
Annie DillardAt night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
Annie DillardOur life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.
Annie Dillard