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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... Tinker Creek ( Annie Dillard ) The Practice of the Wild ( Gary Snyder ) Resist Much , Obey Little ( James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee , eds . ) The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold ( Susan Flader and J. Baird ...
... Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard) The Practice of the Wild (Gary Snyder) Resist Much, Obey Little (Iames Hepworth and Gregory McNamee, eds.) The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold (Susan Flader and I. Baird Callicott ...
... Tinker Creek ( 1974 ) , is fascinated with even the smallest natural event and , simultaneously , is preoc- cupied with spiritual renewal . Haunted by the horrors she has witnessed in nature and doubting central Christian tenets , she ...
... Tinker Creek , while Christian in perspective , is in many ways the work most like Walden of any in contemporary American nature literature . Dillard's own de- scription of her first - person , spiritual questing in Kindred Spirits 7.
... Tinker Creek . Beside the water , the two spiritual seekers ritu- ally cleanse themselves so they can awaken and see . " We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake , not by mechani- cal aids , but by an infinite expectation of ...