Our Natural Vocabulary
Copied from post on https://www.instagram.com/animamundiherbals/ Have you ever thought about how the language we use separates us from nature? 🌳 Language affects our relationships with the natural world more than we may realize. If we change how we talk about nature, expanding our vocabularies to include new words (maybe even some in languages that are not our own), we might deepen our sense of interconnectedness, dispel the myth that humans and nature are separate, and move toward stronger actions for conservation, climate solutions, and preventing biodiversity loss. Indigenous communities like the Syilx Okanagan Nation, for example, refer to “the…