The Grammar of Enchantment: A Visual Peat Glossary for Modern Life

Published about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Earth Endeavours Newsletter In the Scottish Highlands, a community stood against the advance of industrial wind farms by recovering an old vocabulary. They resurrected a "peat glossary," reviving archaic terms that describe the texture, sound, and scent of their land. Words like gloaming, skirl, and moss became intimate descriptors of a living kin. As Robert Macfarlane argues in Landmarks, drawing on the wisdom of Wendell Berry, conservation begins with deep, particular knowledge. Berry...

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