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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... central Christian tenets , she ransacks her experiences in nature and with religion to find the elements necessary for affirmation . Finally , Gary Snyder ( b . 1930 ) , one of America's most important living poets and an in- sightful ...
... central to Krutch's conversion . Krutch's biogra- pher believes that Thoreau was responsible for showing Krutch " the way beyond ... despair " ; Thoreau demonstrated that " ' there can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the ...
... gotten in touch with reality . That the particular must not be ignored is a central topic of Dillard's book linking natural preoccupations with theological dilemmas . That " Christ's incarnation occurred im- probably 8 Kindred Spirits.
... central to his world view . " Democritus , Galileo , Copernicus , Kepler , New- ton , Lyell , Darwin , and Einstein , " Abbey writes , are " liberators of the human consciousness , " because they have expanded knowledge and awareness ...
... central political question , " Who is being served by them ? " ( RW , 147 ) . Abbey calls science and technology whores of industry and war , and Snyder would agree ( AR , 125 ) . Fur- thermore , all these writers are moralists who want ...