#annie dillard

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[probablyasocialecologist]

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind’s sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.

Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

[novlr]

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.” — Annie Dillard

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

[undinesea]

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

Annie Dillard, from The Writing Life

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” ― Annie Dillard, The Living.

[nobeerreviews]

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

-- Annie Dillard

(Merlischachen, Switzerland)

[red-ibis-red]

It is the shock I remember. Not only does something come if you wait, but it pours over you like a waterfall, like a tidal wave. You wait in all naturalness without expectation or hope, emptied, translucent, and that which comes rocks and topples you; it will shear, loose, launch, winnow, grind.

—Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This famous picture by Matt Dave shows a shark just before it emerges from water, breaking its surface tension. More details/photos: http://bit.ly/3HZVigR

[David Attenborough Fans]

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“The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.”

― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

[jackxo]

“One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief.”

-Annie Dillard, “Total Eclipse”

[entheognosis]

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Annie Dillard

[dk-thrive]

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

— Annie Dillard, from The Writing Life (Harper Perennial, November 12, 2013)

[probablyasocialecologist]

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn’t us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we’re blue.

Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

[rose1water]

[cricket-approved]

Mainly, I loved you then and I love you now, I fear I will always love you, long after the poetic and arbitrary amount of time and long after I should, but I think you know that by now.

[dailydillard]

Nothing is going to happen in this book. There is only a little violence here and there in the language, at the corner, where eternity clips time.

Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, 1977