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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... mysteries are best approached with a humility that does not assume that nature exists for human purposes . Donald Worster , historian of the idea of ecology , finds in Thoreau's life and work " an increasingly complex and sophisticated ...
... mystery . The landscape of the Colorado Plateau , for example , can best be understood by poets who have their feet planted in concrete — concrete data— and by scientists whose heads and hearts have not lost the capac- ity for wonder ...
... mystery ; Annie Dillard's accounts of nature's gro- tesquery as signs of a maniacal God are counterbalanced by mystical experiences such as seeing the ordinary " back yard ce- dar " transfigured , " each cell buzzing with flame , " and ...
... mystery " ( AR , 90 ) . In wilderness he found " the discovery of the self in its proud sufficience which is not isola- tion but an irreplaceable part of the mystery of the whole " ( AR , 88 ) . These private conversions are freighted ...
... mystery . One of Leopold's signal accomplish- ments was to unite an ecological view and a land ethic with an aesthetic . Leopold's " land aesthetic enables us to mine the hid- den riches of the ordinary ; it ennobles the commonplace ...