This chapter examines the relationship between freedom and the earth in F. W. J. Schelling’s philosophical enterprise in terms of the relationship between negative and positive philosophyPhilosophypositive. The mere mention of the earth in Schelling’s thought typically signals that one is taking up a topic in his Naturphilosophie. My reflections will argue against this tendency and try to grasp this relationship as one way to understand Schelling’s image of thought, that is, his intuition of what it means to do philosophy. Philosophy, in both its negative and positive registers, is the practice of freedom here on earth: “Greatness is not attained by giving up the earthly and tossing it aside, but by retaining and transforming it,” as Schelling claimed in 1811. In a sense, I am asking about the broadest of concerns in Schelling’s thought, a thought so broad that, no matter what philosophical account one offers of the progressProgress of Schelling’s path of thought (e.g., it develops in discrete stages, it is continuous, it is marked by abrupt about faces and radically new reorientations, etc.), it somehow holds his project together, albeit not as a single kind of philosophical activity but rather as fundamentally divided. Schelling is first and foremost a thinker of freedom and, to the extent that such a commitment can never be fully sundered from the earth, he remains concerned with the problem of nature even during the period when the bulk of his activity was devoted to positive philosophyPhilosophypositive. To put the question as directly as possible: what is freedom and how does it gather and orient thinking?