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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

Intelligence Squared

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Language and the National Parks

I'm interested in how language connects or fails to connect us to our places. I wrote a long essay about the precision of Gallic and its extraordinary ability to name place into being. National Park Authority is now trying to create a glossary of, as it were, knowledge of intimacy for different landscapes in the UK. That's not really an answer to your question but it's sort of a response.

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