Richard Swan·Apr 172026 Thumbnail Review #11 Is a River Alive? by Robert MacfarlaneThis could be, should be, an important book. It’s certainly a topical one: it combines the headline topics of growing belief in non-human…
Mary Reynolds Thompson·Sep 23, 2025Wild Intuition, Not Gutless Gut-FeelingsOne of the most extraordinary examples of intuition I’ve come across is in Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? In one of the three river…
InThe New Climate.byMichele·Jul 14, 2025Can A River Really Be Alive?Macfarlane urges to abandon Western science for morality and ecology. This is dangerous and also futile: there is a better path within…
InThe EnvironmentbyMichele·May 29, 2025A River Is Not AliveIn his latest book Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane invites us to ponder the aliveness of rivers but the reading can suggest an…A response icon1
Travis Weninger·Apr 9, 2025Book Report: Underland by Robert MacfarlaneRobert Macfarlane’s Underland takes us across time and space to illuminate the hidden worlds that live below our feet. Throughout the book…
