In Living Like Weasels, Dillard says that she "might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity without bias or motive." She says that "the weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice," meaning the weasel does not live a life of leisurely activities, but he lives a life of priorities for survival. Human beings do not have this type of priority. Our needs for survival are mainly provided to us, while those of a weasel must be found on their own. She begins to study a wild weasel and analyze how he attacks his prey."Obedient to instinct, he bites his prey at the base of the skull, and he does not let go." After the weasel has sunken his teeth in, there is no telling how long his
