Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Elemental Encounters and Ideas
7. Philosophy’s Forgotten Four 13
8. Interstice: Stone 51
9. The Topology of the Elemental Environment 59
10. Interstice: Wood 93
11. Elemental Theories
12. The Flowering of Ecological Roots 103
13. Interstice: Ice and Snow 137
14. Plato’s Chora-graphy of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 143
15. Interstice: Cloud 173
16. The Place of the Elements and the Elements of Place 179
17. Interstice: Heat and Cold 201
18. The Economy and Ecology of the Aristotelian Elements 209
19. Interstice: Light and Shadow 243
20. Elemental Worlds
21. Domestication of the Elements 255
22. Interstice: Night 283
23. In Touch With the Sensuous World 293
24. Interstice: Space 327
25. Revaluing Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 333
26. Notes 357
27. Index 419