If one cannot identify the native plants in a particular landscape―and almost any name will do―the plants tend to blur into one another and become a confused and confusing mass of vegetation, or bushes. In other words, if you can’t name it, you can’t really see it. In this lies the magic of names and naming. To name a thing is to give it a second creation, a creation by the viewer.

in Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton, 1992.

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