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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Spiritual
Energy
Muscular
Corresponding
Sunlight
Weather
Clouds
Air
Wind

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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.
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For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.
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