Ecological restoration must also repair humanity’s relationship with the world

Evidence

We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of the earth’s beings. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 709

Categorization

• XREF: Restoration of relationship rather than only land speaks directly to Eco-Justice Education’s core concern and to earlier chapters on healing land stories. — connects to: Sustainable communities never interfere with natural systems’ self-regeneration — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 123; Restoring the sick earth requires reversing mainstream values and economic priorities — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 1084; Land restoration cannot proceed without healing the land story narrative — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 46 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Restoration requires thinking like the whole ecosystem, not just the target species #expands (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1072
• Restoration’s enduring product is the human-land relationship, not ecosystem state #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1233
• Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes. #corroborates (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1036
• Loving ecological relationships can be destroyed while their material systems persist #complicates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 895
• Allowing surroundings to subsist is what turns environment into a lived world #expands (0.70)
• Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike #expands (0.70) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465