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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... plants , sunfish , skunks , and stars . All of these writers long for , or actually herald , the affirmation Thoreau records in the " Spring " chapter of Walden - that " there is nothing which is not organic " ( 308 ) . New versions of ...
... plants ; he described mutual dependencies of plants , the soil , and the climate in a " complex organism . " ' 12 Scotch biologist J. Arthur Thompson used the phrase " web of life " to characterize the special nature of these communal ...
... plant ecology and succession to Arizona brush fields that had been grazed or burned ( RMG , 114-22 ) . Letters between Leopold and Clements in 1930 about population cy- cles suggest a wide correspondence between the two men . Fur- ther ...
... plants and animals about them . With his family , Leopold spent weekends learning about his place and nurturing it back to health , healing its wounds . In his own recovery of the land's story , Leopold was doing what Gary Snyder ...
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