The following is excerpted from a talk I gave at Middlebury College on February 24th, 2016 as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series. It’s a literature talk which means major spoiler alerts! The data & code for many of the visualizations below are available here. This is very much a work-in-progress talk, and I welcome feedback, questions, suggestions, and collaborations!  Introduction Early last year, the award-winning writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane published an… Digital Readings & “Ferny, Mossy Discoveries”