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In Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums and in Annie Dillard’s Seeing, they experience spiritual content in nature and try to escape the fast pace materialistic culture that is so prevalent in the country today. They find stress and unhappiness in modern day culture and go to nature to escape this. They both are sending the message to look to nature find spiritual happiness and to revitalize yourself. Both Karouac and Dillard find spiritual value in the solitude of nature and encourage the reader to take a leave from society and observe nature closely to appreciate the restorative “gifts” that nature offers to the human spirit.