Settler visitors to sacred sites hunger for lost land-love

Evidence

There are often other walkers here. I suppose that’s what it means when they put down the camera and stand on the headland, straining to hear above the wind with that wistful look, the gaze out to sea. They look like they’re trying to remember what it would be like to love the world. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 903

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to ch51’s claim that settlers share grief of lost ecological reciprocity; the ‘wistful look’ is longing for that lost relationship. — connects to: Settlers share the grief of lost ecological reciprocity with Indigenous peoples — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 765; People seek certainty and belonging in natural and historic sites — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 156; Settler ceremony withered because it lost its ties to the land it emigrated from. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 912 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• People seek certainty and belonging in natural and historic sites #expands (0.80) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 156
• Civilization’s bondage breeds longing that becomes worship of a transfigured nature #expands (0.75)
• Settler ceremony withered because it lost its ties to the land it emigrated from. #qualifies (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 912