Annie Dillard: Essays Annie Dillard

Traditionally, humans have touted themselves as the most intelligent and compassionate creatures on Earth. In their interactions with other species, humans have used this claim as the basis for their ill-treatment of those species. But does human...

In Annie Dillard’s essay, “Living Like Weasels”, she reminisces on her encounter with a weasel, and even though the weasel was a mere animal, it invoked life altering thoughts from within the author. Dillard compares the life of a wild weasel to...