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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... things ) , close observation of nat- ural fact , emotional participation in the processes of nature , and a scientific bearing that rejected " official science . " Tho- reau's essays , Krutch says , present the outline of elements de ...
... things exist for him . ( GANW , 6 ) Consonant with Aldo Leopold's argument in A Sand County Al- manac the same year , Krutch describes Thoreau's biocentric at- titude as one that represents " a sort of ultimate democracy which proclaims ...
... thing , to live its own life in its own way at its own pace in its own square mile of home . ( DR , 36 ) Like Krutch , Abbey admires the Thoreau willing to im- merse himself in nature's particulars , rather than the Emerson- ian side of ...
... thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture , but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture ? And to have drunk of the clear waters , but ye must foul the residue with your feet ? ' " ( RMG , 74 ) . As early as ...
... thing as beauty , a grace wholly gratuitous " ( PTC , 8 ) . An important theme of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is that nature's beauty is both concealed and revealed , just as God is both hid- den and glimpsed . But the hiddenness does not ...