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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the view of nature held by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species and Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. No additional sources cited.
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indescribable but incredibly important in their daily life. For others it is something only to be studied and understood from a scientific perspective. The following paper compares and contrasts two
perspectives, that of Darwin in The Origin of Species and Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Nature: Charles Darwin and Annie Dillard
According to the student requesting this paper, "Both Charles Darwin (The Origin of Species) and Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) are extremely interested in the phenomenon of "nature" and
how people can best understand it. Darwin examines nature from the standpoint of science, specifically evolutionary biology, whereas Dillard regards nature from the perspective of a literary author." These two
individuals, therefore, clearly offer two different perspectives from which an individual could best understand nature. For some Darwins explanations would be more enjoyable and informative than Dillards. And for others
it would seem that Dillards nature musings would be more meaningful in relationship to experiencing nature more than just understanding nature. In
looking at the two it is quite obvious that Darwin has an awe of nature, but at the same time his duty or mission was not to simply describe what
he felt but what he saw. His work begins with the following: "When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals,
one of the first points which strikes us is, that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state
of nature" (Darwin, 2003; 31). These words essentially seem to set the premise or foundation for the way in which Darwin will look at nature. He delves deeply into differences
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