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@RizomaSchool @Tao_Orion Here, a fuller description of that conference and, essentially, the transcending power of bio-cultural ecology as an integrative locus for healing and understanding - as distinct from fragmented ideologies and perspectives, and the antagonisms they implicitly represent.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Mar 2019

@nils_gilman The first ever conference bringing together the "pro-natives" and "pro-exotics" camps at the 2007 Lost Valley Native Plants and Permaculture Conference revealed a hidden ecological perspective informing a path beyond confrontational politics. facebook.com/notes/631364090280918/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @norman_cal5445 @silvopasturist @PatrickHeizer They are! And yet we found that grounding the ostensibly vast divide between pro-natives and pro-exotics camps in the concrete, local particulars of face-to-face resolution, and universalizing from there, proved a surprisingly gentil turn. Illumination abounded. Peace was made.Quoted by@norman_cal5445 @silvopasturist @PatrickHeizer They are! And yet we found that grounding the ostensibly vast divide between pro-natives and pro-exotics camps in the concrete, local particulars of face-to-face resolution, and universalizing from there, proved a surprisingly gentil turn. Illumination abounded. Peace was made.Quoted by@lukeburgis 16/ Local restoration is the seed of universal restoration. Salvation is cosmic in scope, yet first takes root in soil and relationship—where earth-tending and people-tending synergistically merge. Planetary renewal and human reconciliation are one fabric, woven locally.