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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... language and the intensity of her spiritual pilgrim- age . I could just as well have begun or concluded my study with her work . But it is more appropriate to conclude with Sny- der since the most important elements of all the others ...
... language as Thoreau might , she follows a mystical moment in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek with the observation that when she sees truly , " as Thoreau says , I return to my senses " ( 34 ) . The sensual apprehension of natural phenomena is a ...
... language bring into correspon- dence the inner and outer worlds , the private and the public worlds , the wild and the civilized . Henry David Thoreau's life and writing , then , resonate in the work of the most active twentieth ...
... language , coalesce in a slightly different manner for Abbey , but they nevertheless unite biology with coopera- tion rather than with savage struggle . Abbey encountered such a union in his study of anarchist theorist Pyotr Kropotkin ...
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