Annie Dillard Quotes about Journey

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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Annie Dillard

Journey, Hiking, Might

Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

Annie Dillard

Journey, Self, Years

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

Annie Dillard

Journey, Feet, Hiking

Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.101, Canongate Books

Annie Dillard Quotes about Journey

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