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What does it mean for a river to be ‘alive’?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:58:21
Publish Date: 2025-09-03 04:10:00
Description:

Renowned natural history writer Robert Macfarlane traveled to Ecuador, India and Quebec, pondering the question of whether rivers are living beings -- the premise behind much of the movement to legally recognize the rights of nature. He found that the answer to that question is more complicated and wondrous -- and more life-altering and world-changing -- than he could have imagined.

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