Lauren C. Teffeau (@teffeau.bsky.social)

Cherokees used to have at least 50 different descriptive names for various oak trees, for example. I think we are now down to about 10 or so of these names remaining; the rest are lost to colonization. “What happens to a species that loses touch with its habitat?” grist.org/language/nat...

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The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters. We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them. https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/