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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... environmental history and to teach fundamental ecological ideas . Joseph Wood Krutch ( 1893-1970 ) , Columbia University English professor and drama critic for The Nation , converted from modernist despair to a joy- ous pantheism he ...
... environmental reform . After Leopold I present Joseph Wood Krutch , also of the prewar generation . His intellectual disposition was formed by the great humanistic debates at the turn of the century occa- sioned by Darwinism , Marxism ...
... environmental movement . More broadly and importantly , the five writers are alike in their preoccupations with nature , insisting that their experi- ences in nature inform and be consistent with their other views , whether scientific ...
... environmental movement. More broadly and importantly, the five writers are alike in their preoccupations with nature, insisting that their experiences in nature inform and be consistent with their other views, whether scientific ...
... before sportsmen's organizations and chamber of commerce groups . Abbey allied himself with the anarchist environmental activism of Earth First ! and con- tributed a foreword entitled " Forward ! " to the 18 Kindred Spirits.