Mian Crist
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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imagination of just how can we see a river?
How can we imagine a river?
And I was really struck that the beginning of part one of this book, which is this section on Ecuador, begins with a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin.
She writes, one way to stop seeing trees or rivers or hills only as natural resource is to class them as fellow beings, kinfolk.
I guess I'm trying to subjectify the universe because look where objectifying it has gotten us.
To subjectify is not necessarily to co-opt, colonize, exploit.
Rather, it may involve a great reach outward of the mind and imagination.
And this quote, a great reach outward of the mind and imagination, reappears at the very, very end of the book, almost in the last paragraph.
And that signals to me that that's really what this book is about.
So I feel like I've been talking for a moment.
Let's maybe stop and talk about McFarlane, sort of how he enters into this rights of nature movement.
So one question, do you see the goodness of protecting them as good for the sake of humans and human flourishing or good for their own sake, for the sake of rivers?
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