Murdoch’s early poetry presages the attention she pays to nature’s smallest details in the early novels. Her evident sense of the equity of all life is explored in this chapter and, indeed, is confirmed by the emerging animism of the later fiction. Close attention to nature’s minutiae gives rise to a profound sense of belonging for one character in The Flight from the Enchanter (1956). In this novel and in An Unofficial Rose (1962) a pattern of solitary moments in nature begins to emerge that become a common feature across all of the novels discussed in this book. Aesthetic considerations of the formal garden in An Unofficial Rose give way to primordial landscape in The Unicorn (1963). As Murdoch’s novels become more expansive, so begins the accommodation of vaster scales of space and time that counter-balance nature’s minutiae with which the chapter begins. The agentive qualities of the lithic landscape of the Provençal mountains in Nuns and Soldiers (1980) are discussed here. Murdoch’s conception of the equity of all life and her animistic sensibility are connected to love and represent a hitherto unexplored constituent of broader Murdochian ethics, having the potential, the chapter argues, to contribute to contemporary ecological discussions.