Author: Annie Dillard

Cites

• Koran (1)
  • IN: The Abundance (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They will question thee concerning what they should expend. Say: The Abundance.
    FROM: Sura of the Cow, (632), Koran, NULL

Cited by

• Carolyn Leach-Paholski (1)
  • IN: The Grasshopper Shoe (2005) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The mountains were great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars?
    FROM: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters, (1982), NULL, US
• Kristin Bartley Lenz (1)
  • IN: The Art of Holding On and Letting Go (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirti into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
    FROM: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, (1974), Book, US
• C.J Box (1)
  • IN: Below Zero (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. . . . We are moral creatures, then, in an amoral world. The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die—does not care if it itself grinds to a halt.
    FROM: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, (1974), Book, US
• Geoff Dyer (2)
  • IN: White Sands (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
    FROM: Teaching a Stone to Talk, (1982), Book, US
  • IN: White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 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. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
    FROM: Teaching a Stone to Talk, (1982), Book, US
• Joey Leigh Peterson (1)
  • IN: Next Year for Sure (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: SIGNALS AT SEA (If the flags in A's hoist cannot be made out, B keeps her answering pennant at the "Dip" and hoists the signal "OWL" or "WCX".) CXL Do not abandon me. A I am undergoing a speed trial. D Keep clear of me -- I am maneuvering with difficulty. F I am disabled. Communicate with me. G I require a pilot. P Your lights are out, or burning badly. U You are standing into danger. X Stop carrying out your intentions. K You should stop your vessel instantly. L You should stop. I have something important to communicate. R You may feel your way past me.
    FROM: from Charles H. Cugle, Cugle's Practical Navigation, (1936), Poem, US
• Mark Spragg (2)
  • IN: Bone Fire (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.
    FROM: For the Time Being, (1975), Book, US
• Attica Locke (1)
  • IN: Black Water Rising (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we are blinded by darkness, we are also blinded by light.
    FROM: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, (1974), Book, US
• Brian Doyle (1)
  • IN: The Plover (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
    FROM: Teaching a Stone to Talk, (1982), Essay, US
• Leigh Peterson, Zoey (1)
  • IN: Next Year For Sure (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: SIGNALS AT SEA (If the flags in A’s hoist cannot be made out, B keeps her answering pennant at the “Dip” and hoists the signal “OWL” OR “WCX.”) CXL Do not abandon me. A I am undergoing a speed trial. D Keep clear of me— I am maneuvring with difficulty. F I am disabled. Communicate with me. G I require a pilot. P Your lights are out, or burning badly. U You are standing into danger. X Stop carrying out your intentions. K You should stop your vessel instantly. L You should stop. I have something important to communicate. R You may feel your way past me.
    FROM: Charles H. Cugle, Cugle’s Practical Navigation, (1936), Poem, US