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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... Imagining the Earth : Poetry and the Vision of Nature ( 1985 ) is an eloquent examination of po- etry by , among others , Gary Snyder , A. R. Ammons , Wendell Berry , and Denise Levertov , as well as prose by Annie Dillard and Peter ...
... imagination provoked by recurrent , direct encounters with nature afield . Sounding like Thoreau , Abbey writes that " science in our time is the whore of industry and war " and allies himself with the kind of reason that is ...
... imagination is the one who tells us not to " underrate the value of a fact ; it will one day flower in a truth . " 9 Playing with language as Thoreau might , she follows a mystical moment in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek with the observation ...
... imagination are related forces , " and because the " ecological sciences are laying out ( implicitly ) a spiritual dimension " ( OW , 63 ) . Joseph Wood Krutch found in Aldo Leopold his example of the man with Romantic ideas that many ...
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