With home-based knowledge, it is then within our power to get a glimpse of the planet as home. The thing is, even when on a trip, you are always clear as to where you came from. We can be thankful that bioregional practice is more sophisticated than some replay of the medieval village. Since it is a line of thought for the future, it calls us to be ecologically and culturally cosmopolitan, hip to the plant and weather zones of the whole world, as well as to the cuisine and architecture. But though weapons win battles, they don't win the peace.
Peace is won by winning hearts and minds.
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