Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary SnyderUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1994 M04 1 - 200 pages In Nature's Kindred Spirits James McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behavior. By embracing the ecstasy of nature, they reject modern alienation and spiritual confusion. |
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... Mountain ( 1974 ) ; J. Baird Callicott's Com- panion to A Sand County Almanac ( 1987 ) ; Curt Meine's superb biography , Aldo Leopold : His Life and Work ( 1988 ) ; and a volume of Leopold's previously uncollected essays edited and ...
... Mountain " essay concludes with a common variant of that Thoreauvian dictum : " in wildness is the salvation of the world " ( SCA , 133 ) . Joseph Wood Krutch made his mark on readers by elo- quently capturing modernist pessimism in the ...
... Mountain in 1953 , and then again while writing his brilliant poem sequence , Myths & Texts . Myths & Texts con- cludes with " The sun is but a morning star , " which is also , of course , the last line of Walden . Bob Steuding points ...
... mountain , " accepting a place in nature that acknowledges interdependency and accepts mystery ; Annie Dillard's accounts of nature's gro- tesquery as signs of a maniacal God are counterbalanced by mystical experiences such as seeing ...
... mountains " ( TI , 108 ) . Each section of his political broadside " Four Changes , " against overpopulation , pollution , and mate- rialism , contains recommendations for political action , includ- ing a " massive effort to convince ...