The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature

"Dazzling . . . a prose epic." —The Washington Post

A mountain peak, a rolling pasture, a boulevard alive with sound and light—each of us carries, deep inside, a dream of paradise. In this magisterial contribution to the literature of ecology and the environment, our nostalgia for the myth of paradise—the primeval, self-sufficient, nurturing garden where mankind was born—is the starting point of a brilliant inquiry into what our place in Nature has been and ought to be.

Writing in lively, im...