A Brief Statement from Rolston Explaining His Work
I had to fight both theology and science to love nature. I took a philosophical turn and found philosophy of science. But philosophers said philosophy of nature was too romantic, so then I had to fight philosophy to love nature. My own personal agenda for half a century—figuring nature out—has during my lifetime turned out to be the world agenda, figuring out the human place on the planet. I didn't want to live a life outside nature. And it turns out that humans neither can nor ought to live separate from nature if we want to protect our planet. If anything at all on Earth is sacred, it must be its enthralling fruitfulness. If there is any holy ground, any land of promise, this promising Earth is it.