Those Wikipedia articles helped me understand. I didn’t until then, make the connection between “naturalist” as a descriptor of a person and “naturalism” as a descriptor of that person’s … Focus? Toolkit? Methodology?
Calling it “Naturalistic Observation” would have been much clearer to me, or really anything that doesn’t end in -ism. If you want to expand past traditional nature topics, perhaps focus on the observation part, not the nature part.
That said, naming things is famously hard, and I no longer have objections for myself—please consider those as suggestions for future readers.
Those Wikipedia articles helped me understand. I didn’t until then, make the connection between “naturalist” as a descriptor of a person and “naturalism” as a descriptor of that person’s … Focus? Toolkit? Methodology?
Calling it “Naturalistic Observation” would have been much clearer to me, or really anything that doesn’t end in -ism. If you want to expand past traditional nature topics, perhaps focus on the observation part, not the nature part.
That said, naming things is famously hard, and I no longer have objections for myself—please consider those as suggestions for future readers.