From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature, I was caught in the current, rushed along the rapids of his exploration into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this river — ...

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“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

Can you explain the concept of a river as a living being? At the heart of the book is the idea that rivers have lives, deaths –– and even rights. It asks readers to imagine rivers in these terms, and ...

In 2008 Ecuador ratified a new national constitution with a radical addition. In the first national declaration of its kind, articles 71 to 74 of the document granted rights to nature, recognizing ...