Nature 'literacy' enriches our understanding of the natural world

Sessile oak (Quercus petraea)

Language frames how we perceive the world. With words, we make sense of what we see, log, register and organise information in our mind. So when our vocabulary for the natural world becomes diminished, words for plants, bees and patterns vanishing from our vocabulary, we become impoverished in the scope of what we see and understand.

The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris