Pilgrims to the Wild: Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin by John P. O’Grady

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-282
Author(s):  
Scott Slovic
Keyword(s):  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Mary Austin ◽  
Clarence King

From Arbor Day to the Environmental Sabbath: Nature, Liturgy, and American Protestantism

1991 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-323
Author(s):  
Leigh Eric Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Rachel Carson ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
American Churches

In the past two decades considerable theological energy has been expended in the construction of various ecological theologies and spiritualities. Process theologians, ecofeminists, and theologians of creation, earth, nature, ecology, and land have been elucidating religious perspectives that they hope will help transform human attitudes toward nature and the environment. These writers have sought to reorient Christianity away from anthropocentric views that claim human dominion over nature, premillennial expectations that embrace the destruction of this world, soteriological preoccupations that focus on individual salvation, and otherworldly assumptions that foster alienation from the earth and nature. Some sanguine observers have seen this recent ferment as the greening of American theology or even the greening of the American churches. At the same time, intellectual historians have paid increasing attention to the history of Western ideas about nature and have debated at length the impact of Christianity's theological heritage on the environmental crisis. Specifically, a number of historians have constructed a genealogy of American conservationist and preservationist thought by tracing out a line that includes, among others, George Catlin, Henry David Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson.

Spires and Cathedrals

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Gregg Heitschmidt
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
American West ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
American People ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Enlisted Men ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Clarence King ◽  
Yosemite Valley ◽  
Journal Entries

Abstract In the latter half of the nineteenth century, especially between 1859 and 1872, Union officers and enlisted men, scientists and explorers, artists and writers traveled westward. Surveyors appraised and mapped; expeditionary members explored and then wrote, hoping to convey the wonders they had witnessed. The western wilderness was an enormous expanse, one that as easily represented commercial possibilities as it did a new ideal. Nevertheless, the western wilderness also mesmerized and inspired, provoking a type of awe and wonderment in its languorous canyons, exploding fumaroles, bubbling hot springs, and soaring granite spires. From the Rockies to the Sawtooths, from the Cascades to the Tetons, the mountains of the American West mystified and hypnotized those who saw them. The Sierra Nevadas, in particular, became the locus for artists and writers. Their paintings and publications, in turn, inspired entire groups to travel to the Yosemite Valley in order to ponder the sublime beauties of Nature found there. Through the paintings and sketches of Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, and through the meticulous journal entries and travel narratives of Clarence King and John Muir—whose work as a Naturalist eventually helped establish the Valley as a National Park—Yosemite captured the imagination of the American people, as its spires, cliffs, and waterfalls had been artistically transformed from mere tourist destinations into sites of divine revelation.

Review: The Life of John Muir

2011 ◽  
Vol 75 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Eberhard Bort
Keyword(s):  
John Muir

Laura Dassow Walls, Henry David Thoreau: A Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-208
Author(s):  
Bob Pepperman Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Henry David Thoreau

RESENHA DO LIVRO "A DESOBEDIÊNCIA CIVIL, DE HENRY DAVID THOREAU

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Carvalho de Filippis ◽  
Carolina Voto Batista
Keyword(s):  
Henry David Thoreau
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