Quotes by : Annie Dillard

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens....

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling,....

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable....

I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely....

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted....

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was....

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now....

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

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re....

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble....