For the like minded, an introspective small book that one would read on a balmy summer evening, sitting in the folly at the bottom of the garden.
The book is ell crafted as one would expect given the career and scholarship of the author, and the words eminently readable come to mind.
The literal theme is the struggle between the apex planet life-form and Gaia, in the quest for aesthetic dominance.
But on contemplation perhaps there is something of the philosophies of Robert M Pirsig and William Heat Least-Moon.
Recommended.