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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... point a basis for political action . Annie Dillard ( b . 1945 ) , author most notably of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ( 1974 ) , is fascinated with even the smallest natural event and , simultaneously , is preoc- cupied with spiritual ...
... points to Walden as the defining text and Walden's defining qualities as " coordinate obsessions " with " the peculiarities of personal condition and experience " ( the self ) and " a scientifi- cally rendered nonhuman nature " ( 77 ) ...
... points out , " had ever taken quite so literally the term ' fellow creatures ' " ( GANW , 5 ) . Radically biocentric , Thoreau because he did not was tender toward inferior creatures think of them as inferior ; because he had none of ...
... points out instances in which Dillard " repeats passages from Thoreau . . . and appropriates themes , direction and symbols from her transcendental mentor . " 8 In- deed , parallels are numerous between Thoreau's physical and symbolic ...
... points out that Walden and Snyder's work are identical in their religious char- acter , emphasis on the organic and cyclic , reverence for all life forms , and cosmic optimism . 11 Thoreau provides Snyder with a model for finding the ...