Quotes by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Explore a curated collection of 67 quotes by Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who g — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an inf — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know i — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No", said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forth — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees. But under me, — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know i — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose cont — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myse — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean th — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with t — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I ope — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was a small dream ab — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek