The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too.

In this line, Oliver aligns human life with the unsentimental economy of the natural world. The owl’s “endlessly hungry” hunting is not villainy but necessity—an emblem of appetite, mortality, and the ceaseless work of staying alive. By saying “the world in which I live too,” she refuses a comforting separation between human ethics and animal reality: we also live amid need, predation (literal or metaphorical), and cycles that require taking as well as admiring. The sentence carries Oliver’s characteristic insistence that nature is both beautiful and harsh, and that spiritual attention must include the difficult facts of survival, not only pastoral serenity.