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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... conclude with works by more than three dozen contemporary writers , mostly Americans . These post - 1945 American writers , who have rarely received critical attention individually or in the aggregate , include Ann Zwinger , Richard ...
... concludes with an annotated bibliography of books on natural history se- lected by nature writers who served as the volume's advisory editors : Annie Dillard , Gretel Ehrlich , Robert Finch , John Hay , Edward Hoagland , and Barry Lopez ...
... conclude with Sny- der since the most important elements of all the others ' work appear in his : Leopold's ethic and sense of place , Krutch's in- corporation of science into a broader vision of nature and soci- ety , Abbey's self ...
... concludes with a common variant of that Thoreauvian dictum : " in wildness is the salvation of the world " ( SCA , 133 ) . Joseph Wood Krutch made his mark on readers by elo- quently capturing modernist pessimism in the humanistic con ...
... concludes , " acknowledge some sort of oneness " with the natural " community " that ecological science describes as having " remote interdependencies which , no matter how re- mote they are , are crucial even for us " ( VD , 194 , 195 ) ...