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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... Idea of Wilderness from Prehistory to the Age of Ecology ( 1991 ) . Since his poetry came to the attention of literary critics in the early 1960s , Gary Snyder has received steady attention from such important literary scholars as ...
... Idea of Wilderness . While I hope my work will be of interest to those studying the nature essay and the history of ... ideas and values that arise from their intense relations with nature and which , while consistent with what they ...
... 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 found consistent with scientific thought , even as he turned ...
... ideas quickly becomes a list of the most important as- pects of Krutch's own ideas presented in more than a dozen volumes of writings about nature published before he died in 1970. The most often repeated features are Thoreau's biocen ...
... idea of ecology , finds in Thoreau's life and work " an increasingly complex and sophisticated ecological philosophy " growing within the arca- dian strain of science that gained more prominence during the Romantic movement ( NE , 58 ) ...