Quotes by Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is n — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail. — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his st — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on i — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or f — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and b — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to d — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The Chiens — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of e — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analy — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters