"But I don't see what the specialists sees, and so I cut myself off, not only from the tottal picture, but from the various forms of happiness." (Dillard, 694)
-The above quote just shows how Dillard is trying to explain how, because she has no specific love for anything her world is very small. She doesn't see specifics or large pictures, she only sees her life, bland and unexamined. She can't enjoy anything, any form of happiness because to her nothing is special, nothing is beautiful in ONLY her eyes. Because she cant see any of those things that people with special loves sees she simply refuses to see anything in particular and walks around in a haze.
"Thoreau, in an expansive mood, exulted, 'What a rich book might be made about buds, including, perhaps, sprouts!' It would be nice to think so." (Dillard, 694)
-This further shows the authors desire for some type of belief that clouds her judgement. She wants to believe just to believe and be able to have complete faith in something. The way thoreau is so in love with his work that he is fascinated with every single aspect of the smallest things such as peas and sprouts is a type of metaphor for her life. Her life has nothing small and fascinating in it, which in term tends to belittle her life making her feel small and unimportant herself.
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