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Elohim rested

Let the earth have animals of various kinds

Let there be creatures in the waters, and let there be birds in the skies,

Let there be light in the heavens, and let them change with the seasons,

Let the waters of the earth gather so that there are seas and there is dry land,

Let there be a dome to separate the heavens from the waters below

"Let there be light,"

As he moved about in worship, water was generated. Froth formed on the water, and the froth eventually solidifed to become earth. He rested on the earth, and from his luminence came fire. After resting, he divided himself in three parts, and one is fire, one is the sun, and one is the air.

he had no happiness because he was alone, and he longed for another. He grew as large as two persons embracing, and he caused his self to split into two matching parts, like two halves of a split pea, and from them arose husband and wife.

Landmarks is a celebration and defence of such language. Overthe years, and especially over the past two years, thousands ofplace-terms have reached me.

‘euphonious vocabulary of the naturalworld — words which do not simply label an object or action but insome mysterious and beautiful way become part of it

And whatis lost along with this literacy is something precious: a kind of wordmagic, the power that certain terms possess to enchant our relationswith nature and place.

The substitutions made in the dictionary — the outdoor and thenatural being displaced by the indoor and the virtual — are a smallbut significant symptom of the simulated life we increasingly live.Children are now (and valuably) adept ecologists of the technoscape,with numerous terms for file types but few for different treesand creatures.

askedwhythedecision hadbeentakentodeletethose‘naturewords’,sheexplainedthat thedictionaryneededtoreflecttheconsensusexperienceofmodern-daychildhood.

Thedeletionsincludedacorn,adder,ash,beech,bluebell,buttercup,catkin,conker,cowslip, cyg-net,dandelion,fern,hazel,heather, heron,ivy,kingfisher,lark,mistletoe,nectar,newt,otter,pastureandwillow.The wordsintroducedtotheneweditionincludedattachment, block-graph,blog,broadband,bullet-point,celebrity,chatroom, committee,cut-and-paste,MP3player andvoice-mail.

fabulouslydiversevocabulary,and releasingitspoetry backintoimaginativecirculation.

althoughwehaveourcompendiaofflora,fauna,birds, reptilesandinsects,welackaTerraBritannica,asitwere:agatheringoftermsfor thelandanditsspecificities—termsusedbyfishermen,farmers,sailors,scientists,crofters,mountaineers,soldiers,shepherds, walkersandunrecordedordinaryothersforwhomspecializedwaysofindicatingaspectsofplacehave beenvitaltoeverydaypractice andperception.

‘thequiveringintensityofanarrowthuddingintoatree’.

‘The hardestthingofalltoseeiswhatisreally there,’