What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.
We live in all we seek. - Annie Dillard
We live in all we seek.
- Annie Dillard
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself. - Annie Dillard
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. - Annie Dillard
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mou… - Annie Dillard
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mou…
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can. - Annie Dillard
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. - Annie Dillard
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
How you spend your days is how you spend your life. - Annie Dillard
How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. - Annie Dillard
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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