centuries trying call God back mountain, or, failing that, raise a pee — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone Talk: Expeditions Encounters

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What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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