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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Skin was earth it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.
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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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