Ryan Rusbuldt- Making Nature Sacred-3

In the book, Dillard talks about an experience where she is walking along a creek and then saw "the tree with lights in it. I saw the backyard cedar where the mourning doves roost charged and transfigured, each cell buzzing with flame (Gatta,211). She called this experience a "vision". Dillard's definition of a vision is an imaginative in-sight beyond physical sight. Since I did my paper on Tom Brown, who is well known for his vision quests, I can see the resemblance between both Dillard and Brown's definition of the Vision. I believe that Brown goes much more in detail with his Vision, however he has probably gone on many more vision quests. To me, Dillard seems to have a more general, easy to comprehend definition of her vision. Tom brown was very challenging to figure out what all his Vision quests had to do with his actual vision, but was very interesting how they all somehow puzzled together.