Sure, it has its uses – of course, we wouldn’t want to do away with it altogether. ![]() Increasingly, I get the impression that dusty, tweedy, moth-eaten old knowledge has had its day. ‘Nature doesn’t waste its time on that.’ Jini Reddy, who explored the British landscape in her book Wanderland (2020), wondered which was worse, ‘needing to know the name of every beautiful flower you come across or needing to photograph it’. ‘It is only humans that define and name things,’ Hamer declares, strangely. Marc Hamer, a British writer on nature and gardening, said in his book Seed to Dust (2021) that he likes his head ‘to be clean and empty’ – as if, the naturalist Tim Dee remarked in his review for The Guardian, ‘it were a spiritual goal to be de-cluttered of facts’. ![]() ![]() I worry, sometimes, that knowledge is falling out of fashion – that in the field in which I work, nature writing, the multitudinous nonfictions of the more-than-human world, facts have been devalued knowing stuff is no longer enough.
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