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ANNIE DILLARD And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r... ANNIE DILLARD Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th... ANNIE DILLARD It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall... ANNIE DILLARD I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment.... ANNIE DILLARD I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coa... ANNIE DILLARD Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T... ANNIE DILLARD Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ... ANNIE DILLARD All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female... ANNIE DILLARD In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he... ANNIE DILLARD Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi... ANNIE DILLARD The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ... ANNIE DILLARD A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s... ANNIE DILLARD I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve... ANNIE DILLARD This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, ... ANNIE DILLARD Yes, it’s tough, it’s tough, that goes without saying. But isn’t waiting itself and lo... ANNIE DILLARD How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one... ANNIE DILLARD We do know that she is a well-respected person and a veteran. This is not someone who was on their f... SKIP DILLARD Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble... ANNIE DILLARD The creatures I seek do not want to be seen. ANNIE DILLARD All day today there was so much smoke it was like nighttime. DEAN DILLARD It looked like we had been bombed in a big war, the whole city was on fire everywhere. DEAN DILLARD Houses are just burned down that nobody could ever get to. Instantly, there were 15 or 20 houses on ... DEAN DILLARD You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page... ANNIE DILLARD Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of ... ANNIE DILLARD So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points,... ANNIE DILLARD Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery prob... ANNIE DILLARD You quit your house and country, quit your ship, and quit your companions in the tent, saying, “I ... ANNIE DILLARD God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random peopl... ANNIE DILLARD One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. ANNIE DILLARD and the moon passes over the sun and nothing changes and nothing is learned because you have lost yo... ANNIE DILLARD The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array tha... ANNIE DILLARD