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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... says by Snyder's friends , among whom are many familiar to anyone who takes an interest in nature writing and environ- mental matters : Wendell Berry , Richard Nelson , Dave Fore- man , George Sessions , Peter Berg , Wes Jackson ...
... says , poems , and fiction because individually and collectively the literature , based upon experience in nature and written in the last half of the twentieth century , offers a critique of moder- nity and a positive vision . Absorbed ...
... say genre to sketch the dynamics of environmental history and to teach fundamental ecological ideas . Joseph Wood Krutch ( 1893-1970 ) , Columbia University English professor and drama critic for The Nation , converted from modernist ...
... mystical experience . Despite their differences — Snyder doesn't write nature es- says in the natural history tradition , Dillard is silent on envi- ronmental issues , Abbey doesn't use scientific texts , and xviii Introduction.
... official science . " Tho- reau's essays , Krutch says , present the outline of elements de- fining the modern nature essay which he , himself , learned to 113 compose . The essays combine " scientific knowledge with Kindred Spirits 5 LO.