Feadan: A Gaelic word describing a small stream running from a moorland loch. Goldfoil: Coined by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, describing a sky lit by lightning in “zigzag dints and creasings.” ...

A field guide of sorts to the language of the wild world— an ode to the places afforded to us by nature—that includes thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland, and ...

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.

The writer Robert Macfarlane spoke to Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth about how he’s collated more than 4,000 local or little known words to describe nature, landscape and the weather. Eager to ...

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...

Both books underline a sea change, if not a crisis, in the language of nature. In “Panic at the Dictionary,” a January 2015 essay in The New Yorker, Stefan Fatsis described the “lexicographic ...

Nature Journal: Using words to draw a picture is not always easy. George Ellison. Nature Journal. Through the years I have attempted to describe the flora of the Smokies region for newspaper, ...

As new generations reach for words to describe the world around them they often delve into the vocabulary of nature. Words such as stream, tweet and cloud have been adopted and given new meaning ...

GIVEN the challenging nature of the Scottish weather, it comes as no surprise that there are a whole host of interesting words to name and describe the actions of the elements.

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.