I just love this book. Annie Dillard writes about the mystical beauty and mystery of nature.

ISBN of my edition is 0553233890.

For a commentary, see The Well.

"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. A reader's heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled...There is an ambition about her book that I like...It is the ambition to feel." -- Eudora Welty

Chosen as one of the 100 great books of the century by the editorial board of Modern Library:

"Annie Dillard offers up her own knowledge with reverence for her material and respect for her reader. She observes her surroundings faithfully, intimately, sharing what can be shared with anyone willing to wait and watch with her. In the end, however, the precision of individual words, the vitality of metaphor, the sheer profusion of sources, the vivid sensory and cerebral impressions - all combine to make Pilgrim at Tinker Creek something extravagant and extraordinary."

Books by Stephen Jay Gould:
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History

Books by Lewis Thomas:
- The Fragile Species
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
- The Lives of a Cell

Books by Oliver Sacks:
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seeing Voices

Other important books:
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin