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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... values that arise from their intense relations with nature and which , while consistent with what they know about sci- ence , are political , philosophical , and religious . Because of their experiences with nature , they have undergone ...
... values and behaviors , has fully artic- ulated a powerful ecological vision of harmony among nature , society , and the spirit . The order I have chosen to present these five figures is somewhat arbitrary since one can construct ...
... value of Buddhism and then found common ground in the necessity for radical action in the environmental movement . More broadly and importantly , the five writers are alike in their preoccupations with nature , insisting that their ...
... value of Buddhism and then found common ground in the necessity for radical action in the environmental movement. More broadly and importantly, the five writers are alike in their preoccupations with nature, insisting that their ...
... Incomperable Lande , Thomas Lyon claims that many of the values seen in nature writing are shared with Ro- manticism : affirmation of the world as congenial to man , in es- sence ; skepticism toward purely rationalistic ( that is , 3.