Robert MacFarlane's 'Is a River Alive?' Explores Water's Value

Imagine a river as a living thing, not just something to use.

Robert MacFarlane's book asks if we can see rivers this way.

He travels to places like Ecuador and Canada, where indigenous communities already see rivers as alive.

The book talks about how we often treat rivers like things, but they can be beautiful, like water in your body.

It shares stories and asks big questions, like if we should change our laws and how we think about nature.

Some places are already making rivers living entities and MacFarlane encourages us to respect them.