* The land is the material basis of our lifeways, how we meet our material needs, and this is the foundation of human culture. Our cultures are shaped by place and time, evolving through history and reflecting our changing relationships with our surroundings and with other social formations.
* Creating is a human impulse echoing nature’s constant creation. We apply our inherent creativity to all sorts of activities, from having children to cooking to fixing cars to sharing our stories to finding a new way home.
* In societies where divisions of labor developed, though much production was still centered in the home, some people became artisans, focusing on making specific things as their primary social economic activity. The artist came to be, servant of religion and royalty. As capitalism emerged it harnessed art to its own pursuits (as it did with science), standardizing it, professionalizing it, and hairsplitting it into ever more numerous separate forms and fields.
* We are discouraged from understanding our daily activities as creative, so that our natural impulse to create can be commercialized and sold back to us.