Robert Macfarlane — The Worlds Beneath Our Feet
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Taking a Name Is a Form of Conquest
i became fascinated over four years in the in the mid twenty tens, if i can call it that historically. It is such a foundational act to give name to and with names, often they are, i sort of call them portals to to love and care. We rarely care for what we cannot name. And so to give some examples from the moorland language of the outer hebrides, a junuch mom is means, in long form, the shadows cast on moorland by clouds on a sunny day. Unfolded out of this, this two word phrase in the mind's eye....
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