The reader will be moved well beyond the ordinarily repetitively treated environmental issues of saving a particular organism, recycling, or saving a river or a rain forest.

J. N. Muzio, Choice Reviews

Eric Katz is a leading contributor to the new environmental philosophy. He goes beyond environmental ethics as applied traditional ethics to articulate a nature-centered philosophy that can be a foundation for the reform not only of individual action and public policy but also of science and technology.

Carl Mitcham, Pennsylvania State University

Katz has been influential in environmental ethics for two decades and this collection of his leading essays is most welcome . . . The result is both more penetrating analysis and increased conviction regarding our direct moral consideration and respect for nature.

Holmes Rolston III, Colorado State University

This book offers original insights to those with a serious interest in environmental ethics and is appropriate for undergraduate courses on the subject.

Robert L. Grant, St. Ambrose University, Religious Studies Review