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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... mystical experience . Despite their differences — Snyder doesn't write nature es- says in the natural history tradition , Dillard is silent on envi- ronmental issues , Abbey doesn't use scientific texts , and xviii Introduction.
... mystical abstraction . Abbey ad- mires the Thoreau advocating unofficial science rather than a science that is normally taught in classrooms and practiced in laboratories , divorced from emotion and imagination provoked by recurrent ...
... 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 prerequisite for mystical apprehensions ...
... mystics of the earth , East and West , combined " ( AR , 125 ) . He stakes out a position iden- tical to the Romantic position found in Leopold , Krutch , Dil- lard , and Snyder : science is necessary , but it is not sufficient . One ...
... mystical experiences such as seeing the ordinary " back yard ce- dar " transfigured , " each cell buzzing with flame , " and feeling " for the first time seen , knocked breathless by a powerful glance " ( PTC , 35 ) . Even Edward ...