Quotes About Annie Dillard

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

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

The thousands of wealth have fallen with wonders, said Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov. Do you find this unclear? It certainly sounds like the sort of thing thousands of wealth do. They fall. Does anyone know what the rabbi meant by wonders?

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.