what you see is what you get

I just bought Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard (by recommendation of Shauna). I love it already and I am only about 40 pages in (oh how I wish I had even slight control over my body falling asleep). From what I can tell the whole book is about these walks she takes everyday, and her reflections on what she sees and experiences during these walks. Here is one of the already many underlined sections:

"But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. what you see is what you get."