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The Word-Hoard: Robert Macfarlane on Rewilding our Language of Landscape

Posted on 2 March 201521 March 2016 by english
Photo by Michael Scott | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

We have forgotten 10,000 words for our landscapes, but we will make 10,000 more, given time and inclination.

Dr Robert Macfarlane examines the plethora of words we use for weather and landscape in The Guardian.

 

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