Of the naming of things, a longtime interest with many facets
Popova:
To name something is to instate it in the family of things, to make it a node in the relational web we call reality. A word can be a pinhole, pinching a vista of complexity to a narrow point, but it can also be a magnifying glass for the invisible processes and nuances that tessellate that complexity. Few things in this world are more complex, more dazzling and dynamic, more irreducible and irrepressibly alive, and therefore more needful of proper naming, than a forest and its fractal, the tree.
Shelflist:
Oxford Handbook of Names and NamingNames on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
Names on the Land George R Stewart (1962)