Rediscovering Pilgrimage
Annie Dillard's pilgrimage at Tinker Creek, actually. I first read this wonderful and amazing book over 30 years ago. It was an eye-opening journey through a year next to Tinker Creek as Dillard meditated on the natural life of the Creek's ecology. I still remember the overwhelming thought as I read it that this sure undermines the romantic and benign view of nature. Death amid overwhelming life. One is not possible without the other.

This is the third time I have read the book and it never fails to amaze and move me.