Annie Dillard Quote

The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles at the height of its breathless unroll; it is the live water and light that bears from undisclosed sources the freshest news, renewed and renewing, world without end.


Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)


The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles at the height of its breathless unroll; it is the live water and...

The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles at the height of its breathless unroll; it is the live water and...

The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles at the height of its breathless unroll; it is the live water and...

The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles at the height of its breathless unroll; it is the live water and...