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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... , while Christian in perspective , is in many ways the work most like Walden of any in contemporary American nature literature . Dillard's own de- scription of her first - person , spiritual questing in Kindred Spirits 7.
... spiritual questing in the natural solitude of rural Virginia makes the connection explicit : I propose to keep here what Thoreau called " a meteorological journal of the mind , " telling some tales and describing some of the sights of ...
... 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 to Kindred Spirits 9.
... spiritual , and social questions . That company includes , among others , A. R. Ammons , Wen- dell Berry , John Hay , Barry Lopez , Peter Matthiessen , Michael McClure , Richard Nelson , Terry Tempest Williams , and Ann Zwinger . Each ...
... 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 later collections of po- ems , Axe Handles ( 1983 ) and Left Out ...