Random sentence from Annie Dillard

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"When in these past few years he found himself seeking the company of gulls and fish crows, young children, and the tolerant trees, he knew he did so not only for their indifference to his person, and their welcome unselfconsciousness in his presence, but also because he admired their own purities and solitudes under the thrashing skies--the birds' stepping into corpses, the pretty children's watchfulness, the humility and rigor of the trees."