" The real underland of language is not the roots of single words, but rather the soil of grammar and syntax, where habits of speech and therefore also habits of thought settle and interact over long periods of time. Grammar and syntax exert powerful influence on the proceedings of language and its users. They shape the ways we relate to each other and to the living world. Words are word-makers – and language is one of the great geological forces of the Anthropocene. "

― Robert Macfarlane , Underland: A Deep Time Journey