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The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. We vertebrates are living dangerously... like so many peeled trees.
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Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.
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An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
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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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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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The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
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Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
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Annie Dillard
Born:
April 30, 1945
(age 78)
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Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir.
Known for:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)
The Writing Life (1989)
An American Childhood (1987)
Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)
Holy the Firm (1977)
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