Annie Dillard — Atlantic Monthly essay (November 1973)

An Annie Dillard essay published in The Atlantic Monthly's November 1973 issue, dating to the period in which she was finishing the manuscript of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, Pulitzer Prize 1975). The piece almost certainly bears the marks of her signature style — close, almost hallucinatory observation of the natural world (Tinker Creek, Virginia's Blue Ridge), woven with theology, science, and metaphysical speculation about presence and perception. Note: Atlantic blocked direct fetching; the exact title could not be confirmed from secondary sources I could access.