Providing an overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics - this book synthesises them into a new philosophy of nature in which to ground our moral values and social action.

Introduction; Part I Ancient Roots; Chapter 1 Taoism; Chapter 2 Hinduism; Chapter 3 Buddhism; Chapter 4 Ancient Egypt; Chapter 5 Early Greece; Chapter 6 The Romans; Chapter 7 Celtic Mysteries; Chapter 8 The Judaeo-Christian Tradition; Chapter 9 Christianity; Chapter 10 Islam; Chapter 11 North American Indians; Part II Seeds Beneath the Snow; Chapter 12 Alchemy; Chapter 13 The Scientific Revolution; Chapter 14 Philosophers of the Brave New World; Chapter 15 The Philosophical Counter-Revolution; Chapter 16 The Enlightenment; Chapter 17 To Follow Nature; Chapter 18 Primitivism and the Noble Savage; Chapter 19 Changing Sensibilities; Part III Green Visions; Chapter 20 The Romantic Mind and Imagination; Chapter 21 Romantic Cosmology; Chapter 22 Utopian Seers; Chapter 23 Darwinism and the Web of Life; Chapter 24 The New World of Ecology; Chapter 25 Philosophers of the Earth; Chapter 26 Time and Being; Chapter 27 The Cosmic Joy of the New Science; Chapter 28 The Resurrection of Gaia; Part IV The Joining of the Ways; Chapter 29 Environmental Ethics; Chapter 30 Deep Ecology versus Social Ecology; Chapter 31 Towards a Libertarian Ecology; Chapter 32 Ecotopia Revisited;