Healing land requires shifting people’s worldview toward old-growth cultures

Evidence

In his years on this plot, he watched the watershed start to heal from a long history of damage. His journal describes a time-travel visit to Shotpouch one hundred and fifty years in the future, when “the venerable cedars have captured the landscape where an alder thicket once stood.” But he knew that, in the present, his forty acres were just a seedling, and a vulnerable one at that. Meeting his goal would require many more careful hands—and hearts and minds too. Through his art on the land and on the page, he had to help shift people toward the worldview of old-growth cultures, a renewal of relationship to land. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1078

Categorization

• XREF: Closes the loop with Kimmerer’s ch47 claim that ecological restoration must also repair humanity’s relationship with the world — here Franz’s whole project confirms worldview change drives land healing. — connects to: Moderners can reclaim sustainable practices from their own ancestral traditions. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1696; Earth gives unasked yet may itself be nourished by our giving — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 353; Old-growth forests model self-sustaining community efficiency that human societies can emulate. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1050 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what precisely does ‘the worldview of old-growth cultures’ mean as a technical concept — mature, reciprocal, patient relationships — and how does one deliberately transmit it?

Broader Connections

• Old-growth cultures can regenerate from land memory like forests do #expands (0.87) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1079
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #expands (0.72)