As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. -Annie Dillard Beauty
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. -Annie Dillard Beauty
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. -Annie Dillard Birthday
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. -Annie Dillard Environmental
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. -Annie Dillard Alone
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. -Annie Dillard Imagination
