She thinks of a story Edwin Way Teale told, which is that eels travel across meadows to reach salt water, remembering the sea from which they came.When a far-off freight train shakes the earth beneath her, she says, "I nearly rolled off the world.".She wonders how much of an ounce of starlight is falling on her body.Lying on the ground, she looks up at the stars and ponders the fact that every minute, on each square mile of land, one ten-thousandth of an ounce of starlight hits the earth.She decides to sleep outside, because she don't need no stinkin' cottage, so she rolls out her sleeping bag between the cottage and the bank of the dam and listens to the cicadas.
As the goldfinch flies away and the sun sets, the fireflies come out and Dillard's pretty much enraptured.And then she sees something really amazing: a goldfinch, which grabs a thistle and starts emptying the seedcase, which fills the air with fluffy down.
As she sits in the dark cabin looking out the window, she sees two butterflies fighting.It's trying, sitting there with its ears all tucked, but it has an itch and keeps flailing its back leg to scratch. She sees a baby rabbit that's not doing such a good job of remaining stealth.Dillard makes her way to the cabin and observes stuff, like she does.Important life lesson: Don't stress out a grasshopper if you're not prepared for the consequences.A herd of locusts can destroy all the vegetation in its path.
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