Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
Annie DillardThe universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
Annie DillardNature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Annie Dillard