Restoration practice is guided by what land means

Evidence

How we approach restoration of land depends, of course, on what we believe that “land” means. If land is just real estate, then restoration looks very different than if land is the source of a subsistence economy and a spiritual home. Restoring land for production of natural resources is not the same as renewal of land as cultural identity. We have to think about what land means. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1205

Categorization

• XREF: Legal Systems land rights course: land-as-property vs. land-as-identity directly echoes ch4’s irreconcilable worldviews and frames how restoration and legal remedy diverge. — connects to: Restoring a place requires healing acts beyond mere love of it. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1057; Ecological restoration is an artistic practice requiring artistic sensibility — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1077; Restoration’s enduring product is the human-land relationship, not ecosystem state — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1233 (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels Grafting & Growth’s framing of trees as underused worldbuilding by asking what land means before acting on it.

Broader Connections

• Restoration’s enduring product is the human-land relationship, not ecosystem state #expands (0.90) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1233
• Healing land requires shifting people’s worldview toward old-growth cultures #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1078