You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work. Author: Annie Dillard Copy Quote More from Annie Dillard “If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest e…” “I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the i…” “It should surprise no one that the life of the writer--such as it is--is colorl…” “In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came t…”