I love this framing. I spoke about it in anothrr conversation on raddle last week, but the way the culture views the land makes the kind exploitation that is at the core of mainstream civilization nearly impossible.

Land as a social relationship... huh... you know, and I know this is a pretty shallow way of relating to this coming from a descendant of displaced slaves but there's a game called Proteus where one Ian Bogost described it as a game where you are the island as opposed to playing on the island. For context, Proteus is an exploration game where you have no goals or objectives, no manual interactions with the environment, instead the island you explore changes simply because of where you are and it changes every time you play. You aren't really occupying the island, you're a part of it.