Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book

1 The Need for a Philosophy of Nature

2 Environmentalism’s Apocalyptic Assumption

3 Environmentalism’s Transcendent Objective

4 Environmentalism’s Antihuman Bias

5 Science, Environmentalism, and Environmental Science

6 Pure Environmental Science

7 Nature and the Sacred

8 Nature and Romance

9 Nature and Values

10 Backward or Forward?

11 A Vision of the Future