Annie Dillard is one of my favorite nature writers, and on our Winter Term trip to Texas in 2006, I read and reflected on some of her writings for the first time. The following quote was one of my personal favorites, and even though this photo is from our 2008 Winter Term trip, I thought it was fitting:
"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. That is, I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular...but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive."
- Annie Dillard