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Living Like Weasels Analysis
Living Like Weasels
Based on what you know, how can people learn how to live their lives from weasels? Weasels live their lives simply. Dillard admired the simplicity of the weasels life. Weasels live naturally in the wild. Life could be easier if people could learn to go through the steps in their lives without thought the way a weasel uses instinct to survive. Weasels are calm animals.” A weasel doesn't attack anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment." (70) Weasels stick to what they are good at: being a weasel. They do not try to do impossible things. They are content with their simple lives. Dillard thinks that if people were to see the world though the eyes of a weasel then pointless problems in civilization
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