Should we treat rivers as living things?

Andrew Robinson

Nature, 2025, vol. 643, issue 8073, 901-903

Abstract: Rivers are born, evolve and die, and can bring life — and death. We might respect them more if we saw them as animated by spirits of their own.

Keywords: Environmental sciences; History; Culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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