# 🏦 Naturalizing Finance

By [BASIN Dispatches](https://dispatches.basin.global) · 2022-10-05

manifesto

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> "_BASIN is not financializing nature, we are naturalizing finance._"
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> \- Jeff Stephens, Lead BASIN Scout

People often tell us that nature is priceless and should not be priced. However priceless also means "price-less" and people tend to not value things they get for free.

We are not pricing nature, we are valuing Nature.

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*Originally published on [BASIN Dispatches](https://dispatches.basin.global/naturalizing-finance)*