Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, Harper Perennial Modern Classics New York,NY:1974 2/2

Through out her book Annie Dillard was very descriptive of nature. It makes me wonder how she would observe a city. I feel like she wouldn't be able to stand it. At times she would interact with nature but most of the time she would observe. She follows nature through out the seasons. She explores many different beliefs, like the Roman belief that bees can be killed from a persons echo. She isn't afraid to question humans and to try and be one with nature. Her stillness, patience, and watchfulness are very rare especially today. The book is basically full of her observations and beliefs. I honestly can't read through description that long so I had to take it one step at a time. Maybe to her, that would say something about me. How I could never see what she saw or heard what she heard. I'm too comforted by the continuance of noise among other things. The whole book makes me wonder what it would have been like had Adam and Eve not eaten the fruit. Would we have named a tree a tree? Would we be on the same level as nature? I also wonder if people are offended by this book. It did talk of God but of Allah as well and it talked of various traditions/sayings by people. She also compares humans to nature, but one comparison that got to me was one she made on humans and mosquitoes. She labeled us as parasitic like them. We nibble away at things and I guess in a way we do. We kind of suck everything dry if not accounted for. Maybe the Earth would be better off with out us but would the solution be to get rid of us or simply be shown the way to in Annie Dillard's eyes correctly handle nature? I guess that would depend on your beliefs because in the Bible God put Adam in charge of naming all the animals and what not. which actually brings me back to the wondering whether or not we'd be on the same level if he hadn't eaten the fruit. Now she'll always have me wonder if I would've seen a squirrel or a tree differently. Now when ever I see a tree I think of the tree with lights in it.