A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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waldeinsamkeit
The feeling of being alone in the woods — solitude combined with a peaceful oneness with nature. Not loneliness but aloneness, and not just anywhere but specifically among trees.
Etymology
German — wald (forest) + winsamkeit (solitude, loneliness). A compound noun in a language that builds concepts by stacking words together. The Romantics used it; Emerson borrowed it into English in an 1858 essay.