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I just happen to be reading it ~ my partner's daughter was writing a diss. on something like the philosophy of ecology and I recommended it sight unseen on the basis of several reviews I had read when it originally appeared in 2000; she has now lent me her intensively trawled through paperback copy. So she could tell you more than I (and might well do so, as I know she's lurking out there, if she weren't so involved in various international protest actions this summer). It's certainly a very good read, with a very wide scope ~ from Austen to Heidegger (an over-trodden wooden path) via all the usual suspects and some rare birds such as W.H.Hudson or Lord Monboddo ~ and some good close readings of Elizabeth Bishop, for instance ~ this I know from what might be called anticipatory index-related spot-check reading. His most original approach would seem to be the body-humour(s)-orientated "three bears" cross-section of Englit., which leads him to an interesting reclamation of Lord Byron as a main witness for an ecological poetics in the middle of the book. Sounds intriguing, what? I'm reading with bated breath. Martin