Annie Dillard Quote

The creator is no puritan... There is something that profoundly fails to be exuberant about these crawling, translucent lice and white, fat-bodied grubs, but there is an almost manic exuberance about a creator who turns them out, creature after creature after creature, and sets them buzzing and lurking and flying and flying and swimming about.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Chapter 13, II (p. 233)