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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... spiritual confusion . Running counter to the main literary tradition represented at first by Ernest Hemingway and lately by Thomas Pynchon , they intuit that our knowledge of nature , our social arrangements , and our spiritual ...
... spiritual renewal . Haunted by the horrors she has witnessed in nature and doubting central Christian tenets , she ransacks her experiences in nature and with religion to find the elements necessary for affirmation . Finally , Gary ...
... spiritual position . Moreover , he de- rives his emotional associations with nature from his literary predecessors Jack London , Robinson Jeffers , and B. Traven . That means they are darker , more Darwinian than the other writers ...
... spiritual . This insistence on seeing it whole , on consistency between the parts and the whole , between experience and thought , between principle and conduct , and between knowledge and daily life marks them apart from the main ...
... spiritual. This insistence on seeing it whole, on consistency between the parts and the whole, between experience and thought, between principle and conduct, and between knowledge and daily life marks them apart from the main currents ...