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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... religious . Because of their experiences with nature , they have undergone profound re- newals in the ways they embrace life , and each has expressed that renewal aesthetically . Their essays , stories , and poems sustain a vision of ...
... religion to find the elements necessary for affirmation . Finally , Gary Snyder ( b . 1930 ) , one of America's most important living poets and an in- sightful critic of American values and behaviors , has fully artic- ulated a powerful ...
... religion which attributes to man a quali- tative uniqueness , and therefore inevitably suggests that all other living things exist for him . ( GANW , 6 ) Consonant with Aldo Leopold's argument in A Sand County Al- manac the same year ...
... religious historicity or horrifying , vio- lent , and ugly natural events , must be accounted for in a com- prehensive understanding of God and nature . In the Thoreau- vian tradition , Dillard shares with Leopold , Krutch , Abbey , and ...
... religious belief became scientific truth . Scientists developed concepts and lan- guage that describe nature as a whole made up of communities kept stable by a variety of parts in interdependent relation- ships . At the turn of the ...