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Annie Dillard

"I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees. There are creatures under our feet, creatures that live over our heads, but trees live quite convincingly in the same filament of air we inhabit, and in addition, they extend impressively in both directions, up and down, shearing rock and fanning air, doing their real business just out of reach."

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"I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees. There are creatures under our feet, creatures that live over our heads, but trees live quite convincingly in the same filament of air we inhabit, and in addition, they extend impressively in both directions, up and down, shearing rock and fanning air, doing their real business just out of reach."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

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Donna Grant

"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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Donna Grant

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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Donna Grant

"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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Donna Grant

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

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Donna Grant

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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Donna Grant

"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

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Donna Grant

"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

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Donna Grant

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

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Donna Grant

"Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be."

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Annie Dillard
"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."

Writing

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Annie Dillard
"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

Art

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Annie Dillard
"You can't test courage cautiously."

Courage

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Annie Dillard
"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."

Society

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Annie Dillard
"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."

Family

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Annie Dillard
"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart."

Life

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Annie Dillard
"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

Knowledge

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Annie Dillard
"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."

Discipline

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Annie Dillard
"Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again."

Love

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Annie Dillard
"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned."

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