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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... stories , and poems sustain a vision of contemporary possibilities that counters mainstream pessimism , fragmented sensibility , politics of self- interest , and spiritual confusion . Running counter to the main literary tradition ...
... looking for a place to take my stand . " The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West is " the story of how I discovered my home " ( xiv ) . Adams ' woods on Tinker Creek becomes Annie Dillard's home 20 Kindred Spirits.
... story of determining what is occurring in the nature close at hand . Intimate knowledge of the lives of cater- pillars , newts , bluegills , turtles , muskrats , starlings , and her- ons brings her disorienting moments of feeling " lost ...
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