Language of the Land: How Words Cultivate Culture by Ambar Wortham, 2026
Urban development. AI. Rising temperatures. Our world is seeing changes like never before.
Yet, for the first time in human history, people are out of touch with the fundamental aspect that makes us human — our relationship with the land.
And we are severely out of touch.
Told through my experience as an award-winning urban & transportation planner, witnessing generational change, and my family’s legacy with land, Language of the Land, asks: What would we learn if we take our nature-based figures of speech, literally?
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