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Re: 'Landmarks' - Robert Macfarlane
Dec 30, 2014, 08:01
Monganaut wrote:
Ooooh, cheers for that, big McFarlane fan will check it out. Know he's desperate to be Edward Thomas (check out The South Country for some beautiful writing) but it's nice to have a bit of lyricism in travel/nature writing.

Nice talk he does about landscape and the heart here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q1IK-O5Ypg


He often refers to writers who have gone before, Edward Thomas being just one of them (and walks in their footprints to some extent). The proof copy asks that it is not quoted but this bit in the introductory chapter shocked me ...
Apparently the new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has culled certain words concerning nature. Deletions included acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow. The words introduced to the new edition included attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail.
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