She didn’t tend to think of herself as a nature writer. All she noted were responses to an overwhelming question: why, among the beauty of the world, was there so much destruction? https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/10/15/annie-dillard-wanted-to-know-the-mind-of-god?taid=6ad32fb606a53f00016df6ea&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter