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Book: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.
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  10. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
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  11. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there."
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  12. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
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