The Australian river legally recognised as a ‘living entity’ - Australian Geographic

a river’s right to flow with clean, cool water is not something we should just aim to protect; rather, we should aim to empower the river with its own tools and resources so that, in a way, it can protect it self

The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the hearts of men,” Mark Twain said. It’s not just Macfarlane who bears this out but the three people he spends most time with on his travels: the eerily intuitive mycologist Giuliana in Ecuador, the geomancer Wayne in Canada and the ecologist Yuvan in India with his “ductile, fast-flowing mind... See more

In the moment that animals and natural entities are declared legal persons, our whole definition of, understanding of and relation to life changes. These things, these objects, are remade into – or rather, recognized as – subject beings, possessing agency, needs, desires and vitality. Suddenly, whole new communities of agential life leap into view.

... See more