| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.3

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Infinite Nature. By Bruce R. Hull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $25.00.
Bruce Hull's Infinite Nature sets out to accomplish two goals. First, Hull attempts to make sense of his own realization that there are "many natures"; that his previous assumptions about the singularity of nature were naive, inaccurate, and even problematic; and that this presents a challenge when it comes to more normative dimensions of environmental ethical problem solving. The bulk of the book is dedicated to this task, and Hull successfully reaches his first goal. He traces through the many natures—ecological nature from climax community to disturbance, spiritual nature from something to be conquered and dominated to something to be revered, healthy nature as measure of land health to the place for the salving of human psychological dysfunction, and beyond—and both historically and conceptually demonstrates the many meanings of nature.	1
The bulk of the book includes chapters that illustrate the various conceptualizations of nature that exist in the public mind. These chapters are nicely done. Many environmental scholars, activists, or generally concerned citizens would be well served by reading and remembering Hull's accounting of the various—and sometimes contradictory—notions of nature that we employ.	. . .

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