  In 1975, Sylvan and Plumwood realised their dream of moving “off grid” into the temperate rainforest in the coastal ranges east of Canberra where they began building a house from local stone (one of five houses that Sylvan built over his life). Working first from a tent, then a shed, over the subsequent five years it took to build the house they produced much of their key work on relevant logic, neo-Meinongian metaphysics and environmental philosophy—often discussing philosophy while building with graduate students and guests who could be roped in to help. After a productive twenty-year partnership, Sylvan and Plumwood parted ways in 1983, and he married Louise Sylvan (née Merlin). That was also the year he changed his name from ‘Richard Routley’ to ‘Richard Sylvan’ while Val Routley, as she was then known, became Val Plumwood. Sylvan and Plumwood continued to work and correspond on closely related themes in environmental philosophy until Sylvan’s death in 1996.