For Discussion: Carlson's NE model

There's an interesting symmetry to Carlson's critique of the object and landscape models and consequent adoption of the "natural environmental" model.  In his view, the object model rightly focuses on natural objects while neglecting the environmental context which contains and constrains them.  In contrast, the landscape model rightly extends its purview to the larger environment, but appreciates it in the fashion of a landscape painting rather than as a part of (nonhuman) nature.  So, combining the virtues of each model (the appreciation of nature in the object model and the appreciation of the environment in the landscape model), Carlson arrives at his preferred model, the natural-environmental model.  Comments/questions?