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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... experiences in nature are not well understood , partly because academics have slighted their works — popular interest has superceded critical attention . There are signs , how- ever , that scholars will no longer neglect them . More ...
... experience in nature and written in the last half of the twentieth century , offers a critique of moder- nity and a ... experiences with nature , they have undergone profound re- newals in the ways they embrace life , and each has ...
... experiences in nature . Leopold ( 1877-1948 ) , arguably the century's foremost conserva- tionist , understood nature from a post - Darwinian ecological perspective that led him to speculate hopefully about an ethical basis for positive ...
... experiences in nature exhibits a pattern found in the work of the other writers . Edward Abbey follows Krutch because he ... experience . Despite their differences — Snyder doesn't write nature es- says in the natural history tradition ...
... experience and thought , between principle and conduct , and between knowledge and daily life marks them apart from the main currents of twentieth - century liter- ary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians ...