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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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Pittsburg
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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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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
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The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
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Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
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People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television they prefer books.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?
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By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
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Put yourself out of your misery.
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There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.
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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
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