21 Wednesday Mar 2018
Forest: noun; a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth. The Oxford Dictionary says the word morphed from the Latin foris, meaning ‘outside’, to the late Latin forestis (silva), meaning ‘(wood) outside’, to Old French and thence to Middle English.
Today just happens to be a day to celebrate the importance of all types of forests and woodlands and trees all around the globe, so here’s wishing you a very happy International Forests Day!
10 Wednesday Jan 2018
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#WildWords, forests, lover of forests, lover of trees, lover of woodlands, nemophilist, woodland
Nemophilist: A haunter of woods; one who loves forests and woodlands, their beauty and solitude. From the Ancient Greek νέμος nemos, meaning a wooded pasture or glade + φιλία philia, meaning loving.
This is me!
13 Wednesday Dec 2017
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#WildWords, forests, invented words, trees, walking in nature, wandering through forests, werifesteria
Although you might read in some corners of the internet that werifesteria is a word with its origins in Old English, this word will not be found in any dictionary. It seems it was invented in late 2014 and can now be found most commonly on social media, overlaying images of trees and forests.
Despite this, I like the word and the meaning that has been attached to it: ‘to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery’. That’s my kind of verb!
21 Tuesday Mar 2017
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autumn colour, C. S. Lewis, Delamere Forest, forests, International Day of Forests, The Future of Forestry, World Poetry Day
How will the legend of the age of trees
Feel, when the last tree falls in England?
When the concrete spreads and the town conquers
The country’s heart; when contraceptive
Tarmac’s laid where farm has faded,
Tramline flows where slept a hamlet,
And shop-fronts, blazing without a stop from
Dover to Wrath, have glazed us over?
Simplest tales will then bewilder
The questioning children, “What was a chestnut?
Say what it means to climb a Beanstalk,
Tell me, grandfather, what an elm is.
What was Autumn? They never taught us.”
~ an extract from C. S. Lewis’s ‘The Future of Forestry’, for this the International Day of Forests and World Poetry Day. My photos are of Delamere Forest, Cheshire, in the autumn.
24 Thursday Nov 2016
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cone, conifer cone, forests, John Muir, John Muir quotes, pine cone, seeds
‘But few indeed, strong and free with eyes undimmed with care, have gone far enough and lived long enough with the trees to gain anything like a loving conception of their grandeur and significance as manifested in the harmonies of their distribution and varying aspects throughout the seasons, as they stand arrayed in their winter garb rejoicing in storms, putting forth their fresh leaves in the spring while steaming with resiny fragrance, receiving the thunder-showers of summer, or reposing heavy-laden with ripe cones in the rich sungold of autumn.’ ~ John Muir, The Mountains of California
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