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The isolation wrought by modern life, says naturalist Robert MacFarlane [2], makes us think nature is uninteresting. However, the power of words can reclaim our so-called barren lands.
Macfarlane laments, "When a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary was published, deletions included acorn, adder, pasture and willow. For blackberry, read Blackberry".
For the Daily Telegraph review [3].
For more on Nature and Language [4].
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