Dillard describes the island in Tinker Creek as shaped like one of these, or the shape water sometimes takes

Dillard describes the random combinations in nature as millions of these, typing at typewriters

On page 8, Dillard says that a frog shrinks before her eyes, like a deflating one of these, a ball used in sports

Dillard refers to herself as this kind of spiritual traveler

While describing sharks on the ocean horizon, Dillard says they are like these types of arachnids

On page 3, Dillard says that "the twisted summer sleep" hung about her like this underwater plant

Dillard said she would return to her "special spot on the island" like a crippled man seeks