“The relationship between thinking and walking is also grained deep into language history, illuminated by perhaps the most wonderful etymology I know. The trail begins with our verb to learn, meaning 'to acquire knowledge'. Moving backwards in language time, we reach the Old English leornian, 'to get knowledge, to be cultivated.' From leornian the path leads further back, into the fricative thickets of Proto-Germanic, and to the word liznojan, which has a base sense of 'to follow or to find a track' (from the Proto-Indo-European prefix leis-, meaning 'track'). 'To learn' therefore means at root - at route - 'to follow a track.' Who knew?”
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer renowned for his contributions to nature writing. His works delve into the relationship between humans and the natural world, exploring the impact of nature on the human psyche. more
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