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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... sense of community with one another and common sense of moral concern . The writers he interviewed include Gretel Ehrlich , Robert Finch , John Hay , Barry Lopez , John Madson , John McPhee , Gary Nabhan , David Quammen , and Ann ...
... sense of place , Krutch's in- corporation of science into a broader vision of nature and soci- ety , Abbey's self - conscious literary heritage and political indig- nation , and Dillard's faithful spiritual pilgrimage and mystical ...
... sense of alienation , reversing his perspective and rejoicing in the kin- ship he felt between humans and all other ... senses still . ' " 2 Certainly , Krutch's published works prove the centrality of Thoreau's ex- ample to his own life ...
... sense of oneness " with our " fellow creatures . " No one before Thoreau , Krutch points out , " had ever taken quite so literally the term ' fellow creatures ' " ( GANW , 5 ) . Radically biocentric , Thoreau because he did not was ...
... sense of himself , the Thoreau who wrote , " ' If I repent of any- thing , it is very likely to be my good behavior . What demon possessed me that I behaved so well ? ' " ' ( DR , 23 ) . Abbey , a po- litical anarchist , admires " Civil ...