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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... society , and the spirit . The order I have chosen to present these five figures is somewhat arbitrary since one can construct rationales for other sequences . Any rationale , however , would probably place Aldo Leopold first . He came ...
... society . Leopold's reading of Thoreau crept into his schoolboy letters , and later , during a long convalescence from illness , he read Thoreau's Journals , a wedding gift from his mother ( AL , 16 , 128 ) . He regarded himself as ...
... Society of America . Gary Snyder has had no formal training as an ecologist ; nonetheless , he has thoroughly integrated ecological concep- tions into his understanding of nature's operations , as well as his social , spiritual , and ...
... societies . Abbey's novels and es- says demonstrate repeatedly that he advocates Kropotkin's an- archist political views , and occasionally they show that he ac- cepted his biological views as well . For instance , Abbey comments upon ...
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