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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... animal behavior had been born , and before the survival of faunas and floras had become a desperate problem " ( CSCA , 287 ) . While Thoreau did not know the ecological sciences , he did anticipate them and was absolutely right ...
... animals " ( 169 ) . Later , he overcame that sense of alienation , reversing his perspective and rejoicing in the kin- ship he felt between humans and all other life . Thoreau's life and work were central to Krutch's conversion ...
... animals . Aldo Leopold's friend Charles Elton , the distinguished professor of zoology at Oxford , contributed to the growing store of ecological concep- tion and imagery by introducing the metaphors of " food chain " and biotic ...
... animal behavior . A Romantic preoccupation with con- sciousness , Krutch determined , was perfectly consistent with contemporary biology and ecology . Like Thoreau , Annie Dillard faced the problem of " how to reconcile the sometimes ...
... animals , birds , fish , even 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 ...