Dan

“In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“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.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters