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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... ecologists . Leopold is often called the " prophet " of environmentalism and is thought of as its philosopher . With- out question , A Sand County Almanac , especially its essay " The Land Ethic , " directly and indirectly shaped ...
... ecologist Henry C. Cowles described the process of " succession " of plants on Lake Michigan dunes by studying more than the ... ecologists Frederic Clem- ents and Victor Shelford wrote about " biotic communities , " or " biome , " thus ...
... ecologists , which in- cludes brothers Eugene Odum and Howard T. Odum , who were influential among biologists ... ecologist , and used them to establish a conservation philosophy that included an ethic for human conduct in relation to ...
... ecologist and as the first professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin that he was elected pres- ident of the Ecological Society of America . Gary Snyder has had no formal training as ... ecologists as the Kindred Spirits 13.
... ecologists as the Odum brothers and Ramon Margalef . For them , and for Snyder , nature's organic unity is most clearly seen in the flow of energy through ecological systems , through " networks " and " loops . " For Snyder , scientific ...