Quotes about Present

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All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he was in full view of — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting sl — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many crea — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coasts the sea tides woul — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. They should train the — 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
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
Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the rings of Saturn are. — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any more than the planet is — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table from me right now. Our — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift Invisible expectancy t — Munia Khan
Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sen — Kamand Kojouri
I believe that anytime someone messes with the mind, they mess with the soul. Historically they go hand-in-hand, for a l — Lauren Lola, An Absolute Mind
This is the way in which he (poet) did his work. He used to go out with a pencil and a tablet and note what struck him.. — William Wordsworth