Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary SnyderUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1994 - 180 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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... ideas about how an ecologically understood nature works , and during the thirties it would be combined with ideas and images from other pioneering ecologists , eventually getting its most succinct and memorable formulation in his essay ...
... ideas . They were the first ideas I ever encountered . They made other ideas seem mean . ' A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , Holy the Firm , and Teaching a Stone to Talk are saturated with religious thought , longing , and experience ...
... ideas and images reveal Leopold's continuing indebtedness not only to Elton's ideas about community but to Clem- ents's organicist ideas about the features of " climax " communities which no longer have wide acceptance among ecologists ...
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