Chapter 1 began life as a talk delivered at a conference on reconstructing conservation, held at Woodstock, Vermont, in November 2001. It first appeared in different form under the title “Conservation and the Four Faces of Resistance,” in Ben Minteer and Robert Manning, eds., Reconstructing Conservation: History, Values, and Practice (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003). My thanks go to the editors of that volume and to the participants in the conference for comments on my presentation. Chapter 2 was also first delivered as a talk, at a conference on innovations in environmental policy held in 1999 at the University of Illinois College of Law. It first appeared in different form as “Five Paths of Environmental Scholarship,” University of Illinois Law Review (2000): 115-34. Finally, a version of chapter 3 initially appeared in the science journal Conservation Biology (August 2004) under the title “Conservation and the Lure of the Garden.” I thank that journal’s editor, Gary Meffe; assigning editor Curt Meine; and anonymous reviewers for their help with the piece. Several anonymous reviewers enlisted by Yale University Press made valuable comments on the volume as a whole, and I am grateful to them.