Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music
Life Examined
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The Wild Flower Meadow of Language
i can't help but think that these words were te product of tribes or humans that grew up or evolved with the landscapes in which they lived. A friend of mine reminded me of a great phrase, which is that live at the level of our language. It's only at the words that we know that we can even see things or understand them. And i want to give us the wild flower meadow of language for for talking about nature,. rather than the golf course fairway.
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