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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... beauty literally home from the hills " ( CSCA , 168 ) . The sublime as the standard of beauty institutionalized in national parks such as Yosemite is revised and extended to em- brace " fallow fields , bogs , and ponds on the back forty ...
... beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them " ( 248 ) . Abbey and Snyder , too , express through their art an un- qualified joy in the absolute beauty found in nature . In " A Writ- er's Credo ...
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