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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... position . Moreover , he de- rives his emotional associations with nature from his literary predecessors Jack London , Robinson Jeffers , and B. Traven . That means they are darker , more Darwinian than the other writers ' associations ...
... position in the nature - writing genre , followed next by a more specialized essay on " Thoreau and the Tho- reauists " ( John Muir and John Burroughs ) . He even published imaginary conversations between Thoreau and Samuel Johnson ...
... position iden- tical to the Romantic position found in Leopold , Krutch , Dil- lard , and Snyder : science is necessary , but it is not sufficient . One needs to train the rational mind through study of scientific concepts allied to ...
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