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.


Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (ed. Harpercollins, 1988)

Annie Dillard Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...