“‘Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind,’ in Wade Davis’s memorable phrase. We see in words: in webs of words, wefts of words, woods of words. The roots of individual words reach out and intermesh, their stems lean and criss-cross, and their outgrowths branch and clasp.” #RobertMacfarlane (Landmarks, 2015, p.10). If I had one fantasy it would be to write something that Robert Macfarlane considered a literary landmark and hear his reflections on it. I’ve never enjoyed reading someone else’s writing about someone else’s writing quite so much as I enjoyed each of the ten such writings in this work. But this isn’t just an annotated bibliography. This is a personal book, with the author’s own words reaching out and intermeshing all of these venerable works; an overstorey transforming the individual trees into an old-growth forest. What a gift. This book will go on the shelf next to Wall Kimmerer, Oliver, Shepherd, Leopold, Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson - my own forest, as it’s shaping up to be. #Nature #HumanNature #Language #Reading_Life #Reading (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca6L8xIOPkt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=