He based part of its text on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

"It's all a matter of keeping my eyes open," she writes in "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

Once while crouching on a log she became so bedazzled by a spot of Tinker Creek that she fell in.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by American author Annie Dillard.

She began keeping a journal in 1970, in which she recorded her daily walks around Tinker Creek.

Dillard was unnerved by the crush of attention; shortly after the book was published, she wrote, "I'm starting to have dreams about Tinker Creek.

"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the Burden of Science."

"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the Social Legacy of Walden."

But it was her sense of drama that had left the strongest impression - and that spurred me to visit Tinker Creek.

And finding the stretch of Tinker Creek that she made her own isn't so simple now.