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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... ecological atti- tudes , Thinking like a Mountain ( 1974 ) ; J. Baird Callicott's Com- panion to A Sand County ... Ecology ( 1991 ) . Since his poetry came to the attention of literary critics in the early 1960s , Gary Snyder has ...
... Ecology ( 1977 ) , Paul Brooks's Speaking for Nature : How Literary Naturalists from Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America ( 1980 ) , Stephen Fox's John Muir and His Legacy : The American Conserva- tion Movement ...
... ecological perspective that led him to speculate hopefully about an ethical basis for positive individual and social relationships to the land . His classic A Sand County Almanac ( 1949 ) employs the nature es- say genre to sketch the ...
... ecological biology . While Darwinian science and the early conservation movement had been inimical to the Ro- mantic veneration of nature , mid - twentieth - century ecology of- fered to restore compatibility between human and nonhuman ...
... ecology had a name , before the science of 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 ...