When discussing her own attitude toward life, Dillard does not describe the same zeal and tenaciousness for being: “I would like to learn or remember, how to live. I come to Hollins pond not so much to learn to live as, frankly, to forget about it” (Dillard 150). Here, Dillard describes her usual indifference for life itself, trying to forget her instinctual habits in order to fully absorb her surroundings. This indifference for the way life should be lived according to nature directly contrasts the weasel’s strict adherence to nature. Dillard’s longing for the weasel’s way of life, of simply living how the universe intended, shows her contempt for the current human