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West coast is something nobody with sense would understand.

Jenny Odell · 9 Oct 2017

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  1. Our reading

    Bioregionalism can satisfy the human longing to be a member of a community and to be both in and of a place.

    Their wordsFor that reason, beyond its practical emphasis on local networks, there's something about bioregionalism that seems to satisfy the age-old human longing to be a member of a community, to be both in and of a place.

  2. Our reading

    Building a relationship with land involves building receptivity into the human mind.

    Their wordsAs Aldo Leopold wrote at the end of A Sand County Almanac, building a relationship with land "is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."

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