Pilgrim At Tinker Creek Annie Dillard Summary

Annie Dillard, in the book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, explores the true elements of nature while finding her inner self. Dillard argues that society has lost touch with nature and lost sight of it’s true beauty. Dillard supports her argument by telling personal stories of her exploring nature and comparing society to it. The author’s purpose is to have artificial materials not be the most important part of society so that society can once again have a greater sense and appreciation for the nature surrounding them. Dillard writes in a passionate tone for an adventures, open minded audience. Dillard argues society is blind and disconnected from nature. Society does not take the time to admire the simplicity of life and nature. Beauty no longer …show more content…
When people found the pennies, they would be filled with excitement and joy. She thinks to herself how people defined themselves on being cultivated on the amount of money one has. However, society should not find excitement and joy in just money but with life and nature itself, “The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days,” (Dillard). I believe Dillard is explaining that if society can find the excitement in nature, as much as a finding a penny, society will have a lifetime of happiness and joy because nature will always be all around …show more content…
Society use to spend hours outside and now spend most of their time indoors away from nature. Children start going to school around the age of four until graduation at the age of eighteen and all those years they spend in a day inside a building in a classroom for eight hours and only spend about an hour outside. Then there is college where students spends more time inside a classroom then experiencing the outdoors. As people get older and turn into adults, like most adults they will get a jobs where they spend nine hours in a day in a building at a desk. I believe society see’s someone having a job that pays well as being very successful. However, is society really being successful because their inside for most of their days and having money to be materials that are not necessary? How has our society completely lost touch with nature that to be successful in life one must spend most of their time