In Chapter 3, I argue that it is instructive to reconsider Kant’s pre-critical texts on metaphysics and natural philosophy to challenge the standard reading. These texts articulate a naturalistic, emergent, and dynamic conception of nature which undermines Kant’s usual claims to human superiority. Since dualism and anthropocentrism are largely absent in these texts and since they also encourage planetary thinking, I suggest that environmental philosophers may find an unlikely conceptual resource. As a practical implication, I review Kant’s injunction for human adaptation in the face of natural crisis. I also explore the resurgence of Kant’s pre-critical holism in the late Opus Postumum, suggesting that Kant never fully abandoned it. I conclude with a brief discussion on the influence of Kant’s holism on Goethe, Schiller, and Humboldt, which illuminates why those after Kant would find it plausible to synthesize the pre-critical view of nature with Kant’s mature aesthetic theory.