Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It
traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have
shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of
our place in nature. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert
White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as
Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and
Eugene Odum. It concludes with a new Part VI, which looks at the
directions ecology has taken most recently.