Weasels, Wild, Wildness, & Wildlands

How does Annie Dillard use science to describe, define, and delimit nature?

Do define nature

Dillard tenacity of a weasel & "not letting go."

Her sub-text is "living as one" with another creature.

Compare to:

• Irving bioregionalism, boundaries & rivers.
• Bishop, seashores
• Frost, forested woodlands
• Bryant, earth and "nature" as a metaphors

“the simple peace engendered ... by a single day of good weather”

“ - the deep lucidity of their eyes vibrate with beauty”

The poet Gary Snyder has suggested that “I would like to say Coyote is forever Inside you.”

The course of these writers, Irving, Hemingway, & Faulkner unveils:

1) the clash of knowledge and practice that

2) demonstrates the eternal tension between what we know and what we do about our world.

The slow realization that nature -- ecological relationships -- are not mere settings, or even places where the actions of a story take place.

Instead the surroundings become essential ingredients in, partners with humans, or even characters in the story.