Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire Robert Macfarlane ... warranted mention in Macfarlane’s essay. Afèith: A Gaelic word describing a fine vein-like watercourse running through peat ...

Robert Macfarlane collects words that describe nature and landscape – and which are dying out. He explains their power to shape our relationship with the earth itself. Robert Macfarlane is a ...

Now the name of a great tarmacked highway that slices through North London, ‘holloway’ was originally used to describe much humbler paths. The word refers to a recessed road worn into soft ...

If you're math-phobic, too, I think you'll get a painless feel for why even that master of describing nature with words, Thoreau, would hold that "the most distinct and beautiful statements of any ...

Throughout Stilgoe’s book, two important ideas emerge: that precise language requires attention and discrimination based on direct experience and that entries in American dictionaries of words ...

This word is derived from the French environs, explicitly describing something surrounding us. Environment has already been replacing nature in our modern lexicon. This may reflect a subtle ...

Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire Robert Macfarlane ... warranted mention in Macfarlane’s essay. Afèith: A Gaelic word describing a fine vein-like watercourse running through peat ...