Neil Gorsuch is an advocate of certain rights being inherent by virtue of human nature.
Historian Donald Worster traces today's biocentric philosophies, which he sees as part of a recovery of a sense of kinship between man and nature, to the reaction by the British intelligencia of the Victorian era against the Christian ethic of dominion over nature
 He asserts that ethics should be extended to the land as "an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity"

