anima in Podcasts
conceptThe English word meaning 'soul' or 'life force', related to the Maori term 'mauri' and used to describe the river's essence.
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Nature in Crisis: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane
And McFarlane says the closest English cognate is anima, which means a current of breath or wind, the vital principle, life, soul, and which gives us the words animal, animate, animism, and animus in the sense of mind.