Landmarks ch 10 through glossary XI

chapter 10 the black locust and the silver pine pg 289

John Muir wrote about california nature even though he's a british. He did it so good that he convinced Theodore Rosevelt to turn the sierra nevadas into a nationally protected land. Sweet.

Glossary IX woodlands 305

branches, leaves, roots and trunks

butt - lower part of the trunk of the tree

Cramble - crooked branches used for firewood

griggles - small apples left on the tree

fallen wood and cut wood

shakes - cracks that form in timber as it dries

woods and woodlands

rhedynog - abounding with ferns

ch 11 childish pg 315

Kids should be allowed to go explore in nature.  But they ain't no.more.  That's why programs where adults bring children out in to nature are important.  The show Craig of the creek is pretty good.  It basically shows this life of cartography that Robert is sad children don't have these days.

Post script pg 329

There's a guy in Qatar working on a nature words like st like our friend Robert.  Turns out its

HUGE!!!I

HE sent Robert the B section and it was over three hundred pages.

Glossary X 

You can write your own words here.  I checked this book out from the library so I'm not gonna do that.

Glossary XI gift words

HE wrote some.words here before the.Glossary section

This book was published in 2015.  He got a bunch of people sending him their own nature words.  One from a 96 year old woman.  some times physical materials like flower, seed, bark, etc. Was.also included.  

Here's my favorite of those words

apricity - the sun's warmth in winter

birra - land abounding with wells and springs

bobowler - night time flying insects, but especially moths

dendrophile - lover of trees

eske - trickle of rain before a big storm

flittermouse - bat

milkbottle - ice slide made by children in the winter

noost- a place where a boat could be hauled from the sea and safely left, often a hollow, natural or man made.

petrichor - smell of rain before rain has started

I like that they had puthery twice but once with two Rs

radjel - a pile of rocks a fox hides in.  Remember that time we read that book about foxes.  That was great.

roddie - small foot path

struttle - stickleback

tiffle - to potter aimlessly in a landscape

tweavelet - small leaf bundles snagged around a stick after a flood

wheman - wind that howls around corners