The attention movement’s work parallels ecological restoration of erased prairies.

Evidence

For instance, aspects of our movement can be likened to the work of bio-prospectors, seed collectors, and restoration ecologists—folks who have been on the lookout for rare, unusual, or marginalized species, and who seek to recultivate natural environments that have been erased. After all, what has happened to human attention over the last century is exactly what has happened to the prairielands of America: a monoculture. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 486

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the organizational form of the movement — attention activists as bio-prospectors, seed collectors, restoration ecologists.
• XREF: The restoration-ecologist role is the movement’s proposed ‘who acts’ — the theory of the activist as species-hunter.