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Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

Update: 2025-05-20
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In this conversation, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane asks the ancient and urgent question: is a river alive? Understanding rivers to be presences, not resources, he immerses us in the ways they “irrigate our bodies, thoughts, songs, and stories,” and how we might recognize this within our imagination and ethics. He speaks about his latest book, and traces his journeys down the Río Los Cedros in Ecuador, the waterways of Chennai in India, and the Mutehekau Shipu in Nitassinan and how each brought him to experience these water bodies as willful, spirited, and sacred beings.




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Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

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