"After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with out arms crossed over our chests"
page 697
This quote comes as she is talking about when she went to Tinker Creek for a night. She was sitting on a log and thought how many people are scared and unaccustomed to the dark. Dillard uses the night to go into a kind of meditated state. It could be said she is comparing humans unaccustomness to darkness to their distance from nature.
"try to gag the commentator, to hush the noise ofuseless interior babble that keeps me from seeing just as surely as a newspaper dangled before my eyes"
page 705
This quote comes as he is talking about how she watches a baseball game in silence in an empty stadium. If she could, she would block out all the noise and all her thought. This way she could see things exactly how her natural eyes would, uninfluenced by anything. She attempts to clear her mind and see clearly by years of study and meditation. This quote hints at her lifestyle.
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