This publication argues that an attentive come across with nature is of key value for the advance of an environmentally applicable tradition. the elemental notion is that the environmental degradation that we're more and more experiencing is better conceived because the outcome of a cultural mismatch: our cultures appear to not be applicable to the average surroundings within which we flow and on which we rely in thoroughgoing methods. In addressing this challenge, Thomas Heyd weaves jointly a wealthy tapestry of views on human interactions with the wildlife, starting from conventional modes of dealing with human groups that come with the ordinary surroundings, to the honour of poetic travelogues, ecological recovery and botanic gardens. the amount is split into 3 elements, which respectively contemplate the relation of people to nature by way of ethics, aesthetics and tradition. It engages the present literature in each one of those components with the aid of inter-disciplinary ways, in addition to at the foundation of non-public encounters with traditional areas and strategies. the final word target of this publication is to make contributions to the advance of a cultural textile that's appropriate to the common areas and strategies during which we might thrive, and on which all of us rely as contributors and as a species.