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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... Wilderness and the American Mind ( 1967 ) , Leopold's life and work have been subjects of four important books : Susan Flader's study of his developing ecological atti- tudes , Thinking like a Mountain ( 1974 ) ; J. Baird Callicott's ...
... Wilderness and the American Mind , they include Nash's own The Rights of Nature ( 1989 ) , Donald Worster's Nature's Economy : The Roots of Ecology ( 1977 ) , Paul Brooks's Speaking for Nature : How Literary Naturalists from Henry David ...
... wilderness and which the State , big business , and technological progress endanger . In " Down the River with Henry Thoreau , " Abbey mingles an ac- count of a rafting trip down the Green River in a wilderness area of southeastern Utah ...
... wilderness , in the enormity of big government , and in the efficacy of studied dissent . " 5 The title One Life at a Time , Please , a volume of Abbey's essays about nature , politics , and writing , suggests his affinity with Thoreau ...
... wilderness . Like Thoreau , who combined positive attitudes toward Indians and Oriental philosophy and practices , Snyder combines them to champion the spiritual value of wilderness . Snyder , more than most Americans , lives according ...