They stayed.”Starting from and staying with the nature of place. We call them life places. Starting from and staying with what we can learn from nature in our watersheds, our life places, the idea is to live in ways that are materially simple and inwardly rich. Individuals and neighborhoods, families, and organizations are engaged in doing pieces of the work to reinhabit their life places. Besides the grass-roots, life place politics, I was drawn to bioregionalism by the intense amateur interest in natural history, meaning what’s naked-eye observable.

Source: Daily Sun January 13, 2026 10:28 UTC