I 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 DillardWe 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 DillardHow we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.
Annie DillardI break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
Annie DillardNature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
Annie Dillard