Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
Annie DillardI cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.
Annie DillardThe point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.
Annie Dillard