BOOKS // Rivers Two Ways

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane,

Norton, 2025

EXCERPT //

English naturalist Robert Macfarlane encourages readers to rediscover the natural animist instincts of children in order to ponder the rights of rivers. Do they deserve the same consideration as plants or animals, which we know to be living beings? He makes his case by detailing his own experiences with rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada. //

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