Land value resists quantification despite relentless market sale

Evidence

What is the value of your homeland? What is the value of land, traded and sold like so much dust and dirt? Companies, governments, and entrepreneurs sell grazing rights, mineral rights, and water rights and the land itself in a heartbeat. … These questions of value are unanswerable, unquantifiable. Yet all the same, the intensity of the Cheyenne relationship to the land is felt and realized each day, in each generation. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 401

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the eco-justice thread of land-as-relation and to the legal systems course’s treatment of land-as-property commodity under Johnson v. M’Intosh.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source