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Learning the names of things outside

Attention outdoors, and the vocabulary it earns. Hannah Fries gives 61 forest words an essay each, Annie Dillard locks eyes with a weasel for sixty seconds, Kevin Sudeith carves herons and a hermit thrush into boulders on a Maine trail, painters from Sisley to Monet keep returning to the willow, and Jay Griffiths argues that wildness is the one thing no market can reach.

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