Is a River Alive?
Three rivers, in Ecuador, India and Canada, and the legal movement arguing they hold rights of their own. The question in the title is not rhetorical.
Three rivers, in Ecuador, India and Canada, followed on the ground alongside the legal movement arguing that they hold rights of their own. Part travel writing and part reporting on the rights-of-nature cases now reaching courts, it treats the question in the title as one that actually requires an answer rather than as a provocation.
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Maria Popova
It is what Robert Macfarlane champions with passion and rigor in Is a River Alive? (public library) — a portal of a book, lucid and luminous, hinged on something particular and urgent (the rights of nature movement) but (because this is Robert Macfarlane) opening into the deepest recesses of the existential and the timeless: the measure and meaning of being alive.
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