Seeing 1

Seeing 1

Dillard p. 695

“When at last I picked out the frog, I saw what painters are up against: the thing wasn’t green at all, but the color of wet hickory bark.”

This quote stuck out o me case it shows how everyone sees things differently. Even things as concrete as color are interpreted. Different people see different things completely differently. This is just part of Dillard’s observation on seeing.


Dillard p. 698

“Nobody on the planet seems aware of this strange, powerful taboo, that we all walk around carefully averting our face, this way and that, lest our eyes be blasted forever.”

I really liked this quote. This quote observes something that is very true and very obvious, yet no one ever thinks about it. People go to huge efforts not to look at the sun. it is like there is some unwritten rule that we are not allowed to