Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard (Author), Gloria Adelson (Book designer)
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
Print Book, English, 1974
First U.S. edition View all formats and editions
Harper's Magazine Press, New York, 1974
Essay
271 pages ; 25 cm
9780061219801, 0061219800
804986
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
Designed by Gloria Adelson