Reads tagged with “Annie Dillard”
What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Loving the Tree of Life: Annie Dillard on How to Bear Your Mortality
“We live and move by splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water.”
Two Hundred Years of Blue
Cerulean splendor from Goethe, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, and other literary masters.
Solstice and Our Search for Meaning: Annie Dillard on How Winter Awakens Us to Life
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard on Creativity and What It Takes to Be a Writer
“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness
The Mangrove and the Meaning of Life: Annie Dillard on What Earth’s Most Otherworldly Trees Teach Us About Being Human
“We don’t know where we belong, but in times of sorrow it doesn’t seem to be here… where space is curved… we’re all going to die, and it seems as wise to stay in bed as budge.”
Into the Chute of Time: Annie Dillard on the Stunning Otherworldliness of a Total Solar Eclipse
“What you see in a total eclipse is entirely different from what you know.”
16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016
From loneliness to love to black holes, by way of Neil Gaiman, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver.
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