With Miss Sullivan at her side, Helen enjoys canoeing under the moon at night, recognizes the mimosa tree in her parents’ yard by its familiar scent, delights in the quiet of the countryside, toboggans through fresh-fallen snow, and tends to all manner of animals, from dogs to canaries to insects she finds in the garden. Helen appreciated nature and animals before her illness, and even in the months directly following it, but when her teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to Tuscumbia to help Helen learn how to speak and read, she instilled in Helen a deep and abiding love of the natural world. Helen Keller’s memoir is suffused with loving descriptions and carefully-rendered imagery of the natural world.
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