Bibliograph

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Oclc number

804986

Responsibility statement

Annie Dillard

resource.studyProgramName

Reading Counts RC, High School, 9.0, 21.0, Quiz: 09118, Guided reading level: NR.

Summary

What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us. Appropriately, it is neither a rapturous celebration of Nature, nor a grim survey of its various cruelties. Rather, like Nature itself, it is something in between, and something quite beautiful. It is a collection of related essays recounting the author's thoughts on Nature as she observes the ecological happenings of the eponymous Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley for a period of several years

Table Of Contents

Heaven and Earth in Jest -- Seeing -- Winter -- The fixed -- Untying the knot -- The present -- Spring -- Intricacy -- Flood -- Fecundity -- Stalking -- Nightwatch -- The horns of the Altar -- Northing -- The waters of separation

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