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Author - Annie Dillard
Quotes by : Annie Dillard
plants
An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens....
poet
Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through....
curiosity
I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment.....
interesting
Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time,....
dream
I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely....
writing
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does....
Generosity
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity....
writers on writing
We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake....
books
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether,....
nature
In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re....
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