‘Is a River Alive?' Review: Going With the Flow
The question is purely rhetorical for Robert Macfarlane. A nature writer whose books include 'Underland,' 'The Wild Places' and 'Mountains of the Mind,' Mr. Macfarlane knows that rivers everywhere are very much alive in dynamic and integrative ways that are common sense to every child. Alive in ways that trump our cultural expectation that life must be organic. Mr. Macfarlane asks us to say yes to the living waters, and then treat them with the respect they deserve.
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