God's Wilds: John Muir's Vision of Nature (Environmental History Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585441430 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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His articulation of the differences between Pinchot and Muir are far more astute than any prior set of observations on those two, and his location of Muir in Bob Crunden’s Ministers of Reform formulation rings true and solid. Dennis Williams offers the most convincing articulation of what I’ve always believed: that John Muir was a fundamentalist about nature who learned his passion, his way of organizing the world, and his principles in the malevolent world of Calvinism. Williams makes his case in powerful ways, offering a necessary corrective to environmental history as left-wing advocacy. In short, I think this is a book that can have considerable impact. “I am quite taken with Nature and Soul. It covers the turf in a direct kind of de
Nonetheless, Muir's secular terminology offered a relatively transparent disguise for his spiritual beliefs, as his prose continued to exude his enthusiastic natural theology.Embodying the uneasy relationship of metaphysics and natural science in his culture, Muir offers insight into the complex evolution of preservationist thought and politics. In "God's wilds" John Muir found beauty, inspiration, and the courage to battle governmental powers for the preservation of natural landscapes. For years, environmentalists have used him as a bellwether for their objectives, making him into a wilderness man, a pantheist, and an ascetic. Through his writing and his activism (he was the founding president of the Sierra Club), countless others have also found a call to enjoy and preserve the natural world. In a profoundly intriguing, original view of Muir, Dennis Williams shows him as a fundamentalist about nature, who learned his passion, his way of organizing the world, and his moral principles in the demanding world of nineteenth-century Calvinism.Muir, still one of the most popular American nature writers, was instrumental in the creation of Yosemite Nationa
Baptizing John Muir John Muir is usually seen as a pantheistic nature mystic heavily indebted to the Transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau. Dennis Williams disagrees. He argues that Muir was firmly rooted in evangelical Christianity, and that modern Green thinking and counter-culture has misunderstood the point of his writings on Nature.Personally, I have no opinion on the matter, since I n