Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Approaching the Philosophy of Natural Beauty -- Two Worries About Natural Beauty -- A Short History of Taste in Landscape -- Philosophical Definition and 'Having an Aesthetic Quality' -- 2 Imagination, Belief and the Aesthetics of Nature -- The Role of Thought -- A Post-modern Approach to the Aesthetics of Nature -- Objections to the Post-modern Approach -- 3 Formalism -- Formalism, Nature and Pictures -- Strengths of Formalism -- Objections to Formalism -- 4 Science and Nature Aesthetics -- Science and the 'Nature Critic' -- Another Turn in the Taste for Landscape? -- Objections to the Science-based Approach -- 5 Pluralism -- Modest Pluralism -- Robust Pluralism -- Objections to Pluralism -- 6 Nature and the Disembodied Aesthetic -- The Challenge to the Disembodied Aesthetic -- An Engaged Aesthetic for Nature -- Criticisms of the Engaged Aesthetic -- 7 Aesthetics and the Preservation of Nature -- Aesthetic Preservation in Theory and Practice -- Two Issues for Aesthetic Preservation -- The Preservationist's Dilemma -- 8 Nature in the Garden -- The Garden as Nature -- The Garden as Art -- Is Nature Essential to the Garden? -- 9 Art in Nature -- Environmental Art: An Affront to Nature? -- Defending Environmental Art -- Is the Effrontery Charge Coherent? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.