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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... Thinking like a Mountain ( 1974 ) ; J. Baird Callicott's Com- panion to A Sand County Almanac ( 1987 ) ; Curt Meine's superb biography , Aldo Leopold : His Life and Work ( 1988 ) ; and a volume of Leopold's previously uncollected essays ...
... that parallels the coming of age of the ecological sciences . As a conservationist , he intro- duced ecological thinking to conservation practices and poli- cies ; as a teacher , he educated a generation Introduction xvii.
... them apart from the main currents of twentieth - century liter- ary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians . NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most Introduction xix.
... life marks them apart from the main currents of twentieth-century literary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians. NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most Introduction xix.
... thinking . And by mid - twentieth century , Thoreau's ecological philoso- phy had undergone a modern refurbishing in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of science , emerging fully dressed in scientific data , conception , and ...