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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... relations with nature and which , while consistent with what they know about sci- ence , are political , philosophical , and religious . Because of their experiences with nature , they have undergone profound re- newals in the ways they ...
... relation- ships . At the turn of the century , pioneer ecologist Henry C. Cowles described the process of " succession " of plants on Lake Michigan dunes by studying more than the individual plants ; he described mutual dependencies of ...
... used them to establish a conservation philosophy that included an ethic for human conduct in relation to the natural environment . His ear- liest professional articles contain signs that he would eventu- ally 12 Kindred Spirits.
... relation of species " as well as " the succession of forest types " ( RMG , 76 ) . Leopold admired Ezekiel's " doctrine of con- servation " in this passage : " ' Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture , but ...
... Southwest that he , an avid hunter , shifted from a preoccupation with forestry toward the protection of game . As a leader of the fledgling New Mexico game protection movement , he learned more about relations between game de- 23.