…Surely it must be seen that those that love and know the land they live upon have a hundred names for snow or twenty different names mud or, at the very least, three different names for the garden robin. In giving something a name, we deepen our relationship with it and in finding many names we find ourselves watching, listening, thinking more deeply about that bird, plant, flower or bug – by engaging through language, we come to know it better.

~ Abbie Simmonds

Osprey – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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