How we cite our quotes: (Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Sylvia felt as if she too could go flying away among the clouds [...] Truly it was a vast and awesome world! (2.7)
Although we've already seen how at one Sylvia is with the forest, this passage takes this idea literally. Sylvia has never experienced a connection with nature as deep as this.
Quote #8
There [...] flew two hawks with slow-moving pinions. How low they looked in the air from that height when one had one seen them before far up, and dark against the blue sky. (2.7)
This seems more like a dream than reality—and that might be exactly the point. This whole experience is helping Sylvia remember why she was so awestruck by the natural world in the first place.
Quote #9
Where was the white heron's nest in the sea of green branches, and was this wonderful sight and pageant of the world the only reward for having climbed to such a giddy height? (2.8)
This "wonderful sight" would have been enough for Sylvia at one point, but the entrance of the young hunter changes all of that. The question now becomes whether the hunter is enough to make Sylvia forget about the amazing experience she just had.