The story of a year (more or less) in the author's life spent in a cabin in the woods by Tinker Creek in Virginia. This is a very poetically written bThe story of a year (more or less) in the author's life spent in a cabin in the woods by Tinker Creek in Virginia. This is a very poetically written book, with a lot of good description of nature and striking insights into the natural world, especially insects, that made me stop and think about things differently. I basically liked the book, although I have a very different perspective from the author --I'm a very urban-oriented person -- but it did have one flaw. Unfortunately, the author is one of those people who can't just appreciate nature as such, but feel the need to use it as a springboard for speculations about God, creation, purpose and so forth. These passages just detracted from the book.
It was interesting that in all her description of nature there was nowhere any reference to the way it is being destroyed by human intervention; no mention of over-exploitation, pollution, destruction of habitat, global warming, etc. It is assumed that everything will continue as it is. Maybe in 1974 the ecological catastrophe was not so evident as it is now, but I found that rather strange; I can't imagine a book like this being written so naively today....more
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