Indeed, as Odell writes, “A standardized approach to time and labor often accompanied colonists wherever they went.” Colonists even determined how “civilized” Indigenous communities were based on how they conceptualized time. Work was not something they did to make money; it was done to be “part of a social economy” where work time and nonwork time had no differentiation. This exposition is, in part, to show readers that “time is money” isn’t written in stone and that we would benefit from questioning it. “When the relationship of time to literal money is expressed as a natural fact, it obscures the political relationship between the seller of time and its buyer,” Odell argues. “Bioregionalism is useful here both as metaphor and as concrete demonstration, in that its timescales overlap and sometimes lie outside the human perspective,” Odell writes.