Keenan Lofton-Dillard 2

When reading through Dillard’s text, I came across a paragraph on page 107-108 that talked about praying mantis eggs and how ants were trying to eat them but they were secure deeper in. This paragraph made me remember how one time I found a praying mantis egg sack in my back yard. When we got it, my mom just put it on the window seal. After a while we assumed that the eggs had already hatched due to how the egg sack looked. One day to our surprise there were hundreds of little praying mantises on our kitchen counter. When reading this it got me thinking about how we thought that nature was dead when it came to the egg sack. I figured there was no way that they weren’t already hatched. To my surprised I realized that nature can never be destroyed and that it is all around us if we look hard enough.