As a naturalist, I have spent my entire life studying and thinking about the names we use for plants and animals. It's been a long journey full of many unexpected struggles and triumphs. Here are a few of my insights.

Many of these ideas informed the writing of my book Language Making Nature (www.languagemakingnature.com), especially the idea of calling upon our experiences to create our own names in place of names we use without thinking.

I wonder if you think about plant and animal names as much as I do. What are your thoughts on this question?

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