Iris Murdoch’s Wild Imagination begins by drawing attention to the literary sensibility of Murdoch’s philosophical writings. Her use of visual imagery, specifically of the Earth as seen from space, helps build her case for a model of moralized visual attention; it assumes a shared value of Earth’s precious beauty, offering a renewed sense of the ineffable in a demythologized age. Her philosophical lyricism combined with her novels and the personal journals and poetry notebooks, now available to researchers, collectively reveal a deep-rooted ecological consciousness. This chapter explores the intersection of Murdoch studies with ecocritical theory: the two fields of interest are introduced to readers. The chapter examines the relevance of Murdoch’s anti-scientism and her thinking on the co-dependence of sensation and language, and begins to delve into biographical details and her journals, letters and poetry to reveal her environmental imagination. It considers the novel as storyworld, and identifies scale critique, affect theory and material ecocriticism as sites of intersection with Murdoch’s oeuvre. The chapter addresses the care required in evaluating Murdoch’s work across the range of her philosophical and literary writings, a responsibility now heightened by including her letters, poetry and unpublished journals in any assessment.