Knowing a place deeply makes people care for and protect it.
Evidence
For Thayer, bioregional progress starts with individual relationships: “People who know a place may come to care about it more deeply. People who care about a place are more likely to take better care of it” (5-6). And the best ways to care are specific to the place itself; as Thayer notes, land use and development patterns “that are least sustainable are often least regionally unique” (170). — Karla Armbruster, Book Review, 9
Categorization
- XREF: Directly echoes the course’s repeated principle that close observation of a place precedes stewardship; aligns with listening-as-method. — connects to: Successful bioregional practices resist easy transfer across places. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review: LifePlace: Bioregional…, 7; People seek certainty and belonging in natural and historic sites — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 156; Caring for place and caring for people are mutually dependent — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 607 (+3 more)
Related
- Caring for place and caring for people are mutually dependent (similarity 0.80)
- Successful bioregional practices resist easy transfer across places. (similarity 0.79)
- Care for particular places and creatures sustains rather than blocks global concern (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Seeing how wilderness connects to settlements heightens the sense it must be preserved
#corroborates(0.82) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1640 - People seek certainty and belonging in natural and historic sites
#expands(0.78) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 156 - Caring for place and caring for people are mutually dependent
#expands(0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 607 - Ceremony reawakens knowledge and the land recognizes even a lost person
#expands(0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 129 - A place’s underlying geography can be overlooked even by its lifelong residents
#qualifies(0.72)