Quote of the Day (Holmes Rolston III, on Paradoxical Attitudes Towards Nature)

“Nature is wilderness yet paradise, demonic yet divine, asset yet enemy, jungle yet garden, harsh yet healing, means for man yet end in itself, commodity yet community, the land provoking man's virility yet evoking his sentimentality.”—American philosopher, Templeton Prize winner, and “pioneer of environmental ethics” Holmes Rolston III (1932-2025), “Philosophical Aspects of the Environment” (1973)

The image of Holmes Rolston III that accompanies this post was taken Apr. 4, 2008, by David Keller.