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Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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I think the dying pray at the last not please, but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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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 had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
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[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
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