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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... human mind , literary psychologists " ( 3 ) . Of individual writers , only Aldo Leopold and Gary Snyder are receiving sustained study . After initial attention in Roderick Nash's pioneering Wilderness and the American Mind ( 1967 ) ...
... human beings are no more special than other living beings and made that view- point a basis for political action . Annie Dillard ( b . 1945 ) , author most notably of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ( 1974 ) , is fascinated with even the ...
... human ends . But post - Darwinian ecological studies de- scribe a more benign nature kept stable through complex ... humans and other forms of life . Its compatibility with a Romantic outlook is striking . The most recent students of ...
... human . We should rather die as men than live as animals " ( 169 ) . Later , he overcame that sense of alienation , reversing his perspective and rejoicing in the kin- ship he felt between humans and all other life . Thoreau's life and ...
... human dominion over other 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 ...