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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... Understanding Gary Snyder ( 1992 ) . A valuable but nonscholarly volume devoted to Snyder's life and work is Gary Snyder : Di- mensions of a Life ( 1991 ) , edited by Jon Halper and containing es- says by Snyder's friends , among whom ...
... know the ecological sciences , he did anticipate them and was absolutely right , Leopold be- lieved , in understanding that " in wildness is the preservation of the world . " Leopold's account of his own 4 Kindred Spirits.
... understanding of God and nature . In the Thoreau- vian tradition , Dillard shares with Leopold , Krutch , Abbey , and Snyder what Gary Mcllroy characterizes as " a philosophy which seeks truth from facts , meaning from methodology , and ...
... understanding of nature's operations , as well as his social , spiritual , and aesthetic perspectives . From his earli- est works , such as the essays in Earth House Hold ( the title refers to the literal meaning of ecology ) to the ...
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