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Why lack of nature vocabulary feels like loss

I keep reading about how indigenous people have twenty different words for types of snow and I realize I don't have words for most of what I see in nature.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Limited language for natural phenomena reflects and reinforces our disconnection from the complexity of the world around us.

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