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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... knowledge of nature , our social arrangements , and our spiritual conditions can be integrated positively . While I might have selected any of the two dozen or more writers I have already mentioned , I have selected five who , for me ...
... knowledge and daily life marks them apart from the main currents of twentieth - century liter- ary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians . NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most ...
... knowledge and daily life marks them apart from the main currents of twentieth-century literary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians. NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most ...
... official science . " Tho- reau's essays , Krutch says , present the outline of elements de- fining the modern nature essay which he , himself , learned to 113 compose . The essays combine " scientific knowledge with Kindred Spirits 5 LO.
... knowledge with both philosophical interest and an emotionally charged attitude to- ward nature . " That emotionally charged attitude , at base , says Krutch , comes from a " sense of oneness " with our " fellow creatures . " No one ...