The Indigenous view recognizes the land as kin, as part of the lineage of life that we are all connected to. Thus, we have an obligation to care for the land in the same was we would care for our human relatives.
-Father Richard Rohr, OFM
References:
Richard Rohr, The Contemplative Call to Nature [https://cac.org/one-life-one-breath-2021-04-22/]
Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (North Atlantic Books: 2018), 188, 191–192.