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  1. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The Chiense say that we live in the world of ten thousand things. Each of the ten thousand things cries out to us precisely nothing.
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  2. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
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  3. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings.
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  4. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    I could very calmly go wild."
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  5. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.
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  6. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array than language can cover the breadth and simultaneity of internal experience."
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  7. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    We can live any way we want. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience--even of silence--by choice. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting. A weasel doesn't "attack" anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity.
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  8. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.
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  9. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.
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  10. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.
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  11. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
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  12. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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