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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... tion Movement ( 1981 ) , and Oelschlaeger's Idea of Wilderness . While I hope my work will be of interest to those studying the nature essay and the history of American attitudes toward nature , I am not concerned solely with the nature ...
... tion and imagery by introducing the metaphors of " food chain " and biotic " pyramid " ; large numbers of simple organisms formed the base of the pyramid with far fewer large carnivores at the pinnacle , all dependent upon one another ...
... a slightly different manner for Abbey , but they nevertheless unite biology with coopera- tion rather than with savage struggle . Abbey encountered such a union in his study of anarchist theorist Pyotr Kropotkin 16 Kindred Spirits.
... tion but an irreplaceable part of the mystery of the whole " ( AR , 88 ) . These private conversions are freighted with social and po- litical import . While it is commonplace to say that nature writ- ers as a group are apolitical ...
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