Robert Macfarlane | Is a River Alive?
Recorded: Tue 13 May 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Robert Macfarlane | Is a River Alive?
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From the celebrated writer, walker and observer Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding ‘Yes’ to the question, Is a River Alive?
At the heart of Is A River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use but living beings – who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey in to the history, futures, people and places of this ancient, urgent concept.
Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming . But a powerful movement is also underway to recognise the lives and rights of rivers – and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences and landscapes we share.
In conversation with Bonnie Lander Johnson.
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