Ecosystem Notes #3:
Social Leadership Daily - Day #827
As I settle into this writing, this journey, I realise that I do not know these trees.
Silver Birch, Hazel, Oak, Alder, Hornbeam, Horse Chestnut, these I can spot. Douglas Fir, Scots Pine, and Norway Spruce too, as they are common in the plantation areas. Blackthorn in the hedges, and mistletoe in the trees. But beyond that, it becomes vague.
There are common, broad brush strokes that carpet swathes of the heath: bracken, gorse, heather. These are everywhere. But the landscape of the Forest is not uniform. Rather, something fractal. Shapes within shapes, and eternal borders. Clumps, thickets, pockets and glades, with canopy and undergrowth, light and shade
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I find, in short order, that I need to diversify my vocabulary: I need to words to better describe the thing. Depth, nuance, the ability to differentiate at a more granular level. To be able to see - to borrow the phrase - the wood for the trees.
Without this, I can appreciate the breadth, but I cannot discern, or describe, the detail.
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