Annie Dillard Quote

There is a terrible innocence in the benumbed world of the lower animals, reducing life there to a universal chomp.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Chapter 10, I (p. 168), Harper's Magazine Press. 1974

There is a terrible innocence in the benumbed world of the lower animals, reducing life there to a universal chomp.

There is a terrible innocence in the benumbed world of the lower animals, reducing life there to a universal chomp.

There is a terrible innocence in the benumbed world of the lower animals, reducing life there to a universal chomp.

There is a terrible innocence in the benumbed world of the lower animals, reducing life there to a universal chomp.