The environment is pleasant, beautiful, humane and people can achieve a true sense of belonging and love for the places where they live.

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• The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands and thousands of centers are pictures of the self, what we might call 'beings'.quote0.864
  The chapter's central evaluative conclusion, summarizing the beings criterion.
• The environment is good, or bad, according to the degree that its thousands of centers are pictures of the self, i.e., beings.claim0.853
  The central practical conclusion of the chapter: the being-character is the criterion for life in the environment.
• The best environment for human life is one which gives people the maximum chance to be free, allowing each person to react appropriately.claim0.833
  Definition of optimal environment.
• The humanity of the environment comes about only when the processes are morphogenetic, are whole-seeking, are placed in a context that gradually allows people to work towards a living whole.claim0.797
• Nature can include buildings, and roads and bridges, together with rocks and soil.claim0.793
• In a happy world, each group of people will experience and make solid their own way of life, forming a mosaic of subcultures protected and given dignity by the environment.claim0.791
  Extension of the belonging thesis to cultural sustainability.
• The forms of environment we have learned to create in modern times have caused us to lose the sense of true connection to ourselves and our society.claim0.791
  Directly blames the design of modern space for severing self- and social connection
• The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.790
  Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.