1. The Relevance of Beauty; 1 "It Is Out of Fashion to Say So": The Language of Nature and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Robinson Jeffers; 2 Thoreau's Poetics of Nature; 3 The Pout's Nest and the Painter's Eye; 4 "Yet How Beautiful It Is!": Work, Ethics, and Beauty in Stegner's Angle of Repose; 5 Renaissance Aesthetics, Picturesque Beauty, the Natural Landscape: An Essay Examining the Rise and Fall of the Impulse toward Beauty; Part 2. Beauty and Engagement. 6 Toward an Ecofeminist Aesthetic of Reconnection7 Beauty and the Body: Toward an Ecofeminist Aesthetic That Includes Loving Our Naked Selves; 8 Dystopia and Utopia in a Nuclear Landscape: Emerging Aesthetics in Satoyama; 9 Know Beauty, Know Justice: Why Beauty Matters in the Classroom; Part 3. Materiality, Transcendence, and Aesthetics; 10 Nature's Colors: A Prismatic Materiality in the Natural/Cultural Realms; 11 From the Human to the Divine: Nature in the Writings of the Tamil Poet-Saints; 12 Beauty as Ideological and Material Transcendence.