"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind." ― Annie Dillard Topic(s): Nature More From Annie Dillard "I would like to learn, or remember, how to live." "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." "You can’t test courage cautiously." More In Nature "Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."― Arthur Keith "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."― Eleanora Duse "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."― Alexander Hamilton