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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... turned to nature writing and popularized Leopold's ethic and principles of conservation . Edward Abbey ( 1927-1989 ) , who identified himself closely with Jack London and his dark world view , used a desert backdrop for finding ...
... turned to biology to support his intui- tions about human oneness with nature . Annie Dillard ran- sacked the works of a wide range of scientists — physicists and chemists as well as biologists — to explore her crisis of spirit . Ed ...
... turned to science to examine the Romantic concern with consciousness . While modern natural and social sciences had , for the most part , ban- ished this topic as irrelevant , Krutch argued that the reality of the subjective life is ...
... turned them from modernist alienation char- acteristic of mainstream American literary intellectuals to affir- mations based upon experiences in nature . Aldo Leopold " con- verted " from managing wildlife to " thinking like a mountain ...
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