Famous Quotes | I don’t know what it is about...
I don’t know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
- Annie Dillard
Attribution: Annie Dillard (b. 1945), U.S. author, poet. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 10 (1974).
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