So that means there's room for a lot of people in that landscape, the more the merrier really. Because they're out there rebuilding it. That provides a base in experience for building a relationship. It also provides a base for the invention of rituals that we need to negotiate that nature-culture contract. That's how you add to you culture that valence that can help you connect, so the culture becomes capable of negotiating that relationship.
Restoration is a key.
We're beginning to see little subcultures that have managed to reinhabit the natural landscape through this experience and this ritual. It sounds like bioregionalism to me. It's an aspect of bioregionalism. Nature presents itself to us in various aspects, as given, as a resource, as raw material for our imaginations. Here we're talking about nature as given, that to which one pays respect.