"Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup.Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game.Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and 'the waste of pain,' but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament, presided over by a passionate Jehovah with no Messiah in sight.A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration. The best thing is her glee, a pied-piperish glee at being in the world, which she invokes better than anyone else." - The Guardian "With Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, we suddenly find ourselves in the presence of an ecstatic and visionary genius. “One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today.” - Boston Globe I am not a good writer, but I can appreciate someone who is, and I can see why this book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Any who loves biology or nature will love this book. There is an ambition about her book that I like.It is the ambition to feel.” - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review The book is very readable but at the same time rich and dense with illustrative writing, allegories and wonderful biblical and literary references. A reader’s heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled. “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. “A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration.” - Time magazine “This book of wonder is one of the most truly beautiful books of this or any season.
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