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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... 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 century , pioneer ecologist Henry C. Cowles ...
... scientists , and human- ists alike , has emphasized " energetics , " the flow of energy through systems , which for some scientists and many nonsci- entists is consistent with Romantic holistic , organic thinking . And by mid ...
... scientists whose heads and hearts have not lost the capac- ity for wonder . Any good poet , in our age at least , must begin with the scientific view of the world ; and any scientist worth lis- tening to must be something of a poet ...
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