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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... forms of life . Its compatibility with a Romantic outlook is striking . The most recent students of American nature essays argue convincingly that the characterizing features of the genre are Romantic attributes combined with science ...
... form of improbable religious historicity or horrifying , vio- lent , and ugly natural events , must be accounted for in a ... forms , and cosmic optimism . 11 Thoreau provides Snyder with a model for finding the uni- versal in the local ...
... forms of life , Thoreau along with other Romantics drew from a counter - tradition . The " arcadian " tradition drew instead from Gilbert White , Henry More , and John Ray and persisted in the works of Henri Bergson and many nineteenth ...
... forms . In short , he turned to science to examine the Romantic concern with consciousness . While modern natural and social sciences had , for the most part , ban- ished this topic as irrelevant , Krutch argued that the reality of the ...
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