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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... arguing no overar- ching thesis , discusses with brilliance and charm a wide range of essays by Henry David Thoreau ... argues the thesis that nature writers " are not merely , or even primarily , analysts of nature or appreciators of ...
... argue convincingly that the characterizing features of the genre are Romantic attributes combined with science . In his overview of the history of nature writing , This Incomperable Lande , Thomas Lyon claims that many of the values ...
... argues , whether in the form of improbable religious historicity or horrifying , vio- lent , and ugly natural events , must be accounted for in a com- prehensive understanding of God and nature . In the Thoreau- vian tradition , Dillard ...
... arguing that the Darwinian principle of natural selection was inadequate for ex- plaining evolution . Krutch found in Wheeler's essays congenial arguments for seeing evolution as a drama in which conscious- ness emerged throughout ...
... histories ( PW , 40 ) . Thus , Snyder argues , one recovers the earth's " wisdom " as well as the wis- dom of native people . Ultimately , the person re - inhabiting a place comes to learn that " [ t ] o Kindred Spirits 21.