“It is still the first week in January, and I’ve got great plans. This is first hinted at on the first page: As you read along, at times it seems unrelated, random and disconnected, but through subtle clues it becomes apparent that she is following a broader organization, one that nature follows itself – the seasons. She imagines and correlates her encounters with places, peoples and times distant and diverse, yet she takes us with her along this journey into her mind and imagination as if someone had given her a long list of objects and places and organisms and words to include in her descriptions. She dynamically, often whimsically, takes us through a comprehensive gamut of emotions latching onto the seasonal changes and displaying its floral and faunal intricacies through her own discovery as she meanders the woods and creek around Tinker Creek, Pennsylvania. Contrasting images of nature seems to come easily in Seeing by Annie Dillard.
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