Caring for place and caring for people are mutually dependent

Evidence

DEVELOPING A SENSE of place both enables attention and requires it. That is, if we want to relearn how to care about each other, we will also have to relearn how to care about place. This kind of care stems from the responsible attention that Kimmerer shows us in Braiding Sweetgrass, which beyond affecting us by determining what we see, materially affects the very subjects of our gaze. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 607

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Knowing a place deeply makes people care for and protect it. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review: LifePlace: Bioregional…, 9; Care for particular places and creatures sustains rather than blocks global concern — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 709; Respect for place can be enacted through pragmatic caretaking rituals — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 126