After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
Annie DillardWhenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
Annie DillardEvery spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
Annie Dillard