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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... feeling , and behavior that turned them from modernist alienation char- acteristic of mainstream American literary intellectuals to affir- mations based upon experiences in nature . Aldo Leopold " con- verted " from managing wildlife to ...
... feeling " lost , dumb- struck , " followed by mystical affirmations of being found , as when she feels " for the first time seen , " or knowing that Tinker Creek is the answer to Thomas Merton's prayer to " give us time " ( 6 , 104 ) ...
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