{"id":25299,"date":"2023-05-20T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=25299"},"modified":"2023-05-18T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:29:57","slug":"a-few-quotes-i-want-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-few-quotes-i-want-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A few quotes I want to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reading this book was like revisiting my old life as a college student, doing field work, collecting insects, identifying trees, and watching for wildlife. My interests in the Bible, theology, zoology, botany, and writing held a party in my mind as I read Annie Dillard’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. I loved this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I cannot cause the light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Fish gotta swim, and bird gotta fly; insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I have often noticed that even a few minutes of this self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we do not waste most of our energy by spending every waking minute saying hello to ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I am buoyed by a calm and effortless longing, an angled pitch of the will, like the set of the wings of the monarch which climbed the hill by falling still. <\/p>\nAnnie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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