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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... Practice of the Wild ( Gary Snyder ) Resist Much , Obey Little ( James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee , eds . ) The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold ( Susan Flader and J. Baird Callicott , eds . ) The Rights of ...
... Practice of the Wild (Gary Snyder) Resist Much, Obey Little (Iames Hepworth and Gregory McNamee, eds.) The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold (Susan Flader and I. Baird Callicott, eds.) The Rights of Nature ...
... a lifetime that parallels the coming of age of the ecological sciences . As a conservationist , he intro- duced ecological thinking to conservation practices and poli- cies ; as a teacher , he educated a generation Introduction xvii.
... practiced in laboratories , divorced from emotion and imagination provoked by recurrent , direct encounters with nature afield . Sounding like Thoreau , Abbey writes that " science in our time is the whore of industry and war " and ...
... who combined positive attitudes toward Indians and Oriental philosophy and practices , Snyder combines them to champion the spiritual value of wilderness . Snyder , more than most Americans , lives according to Kindred Spirits 9.