Robert Macfarlane

Hello—I’m hanging up my boots here on BlueSky for the summer.

Come find/follow me on Instagram instead, perhaps, where I’m @robgmacfarlane.

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Some rivers have rights, but author Robert Macfarlane argues they’re also alive This week on Mongabay’s podcast, celebrated author and repeat Nobel Prize in Literature candidate Robert Macfarlane discusses his fascinating new book, Is a River Alive?, which both asks and provides ...

Is a river alive?

Nobel prize contender and celebrated author Robert Macfarlane explores this question with @racheldonald.bsky.social on the latest @mongabay.com podcast here:

Ah, thanks Jeff! And I was truly in the very best of hands with Ross; a brilliant writer, thinker & interlocutor — and all of it with a smile on his face

That interview with David was one of the special ones — as was the Powells conversation with @ferrisjabr.bsky.social.
All in all a fabulous day, followed by a run up (and down) Dog Mountain in the Columbia Gorge the next morning. Thanks for gently setting me right on Tyndall’s nationality!

Written by Saleh, a 17-year-old poet from Gaza, ‘When the Sea became a Wall’ is the first in a series of letterpress prints facilitated by writers Alice Oswald, Zaffar Kunial, Max Porter & @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social‬ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/when...

Such a great album. Milk!

It was an amazing, invigorating day. Thanks for coming and meeting me with such warmth!

where water comes together with other water Just a favorite poem of mine by Raymond Carver.

Amazing to hear about the riverside open mic! Try Raymond Carver’s late poem, “Where water comes together with other water”.
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It was magic! Thank you so much for everything, Kriz.

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
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It was an amazing night! I couldn’t believe how many people showed up. A “community commons” indeed.

Woooot!

Yes!

Thanks! Loved doing that interview

Thanks! Loved that conversation

Totally

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

Ohhhhh

Absolute pleasure to meet you, Skylar — and thank you for saying what you did.

It’s just a wonderful piece/coverage — I’m very grateful for the attention and support the rivers, ideas & people who flow through its pages are getting from the Globe and Mail

"Perhaps I will write—not to immortalize the pain, but to say that we were here… loving, dreaming, planting, drawing, singing, reading, writing… before our lives were reduced to a passing news bulletin or a cold political statement."

Buzzed for it!

Thank you, John — lovely to read that response

Thank you — that’s a lovely envoi

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program

The USGS ecosystems research program doesn't just study wildlife. Its researchers work on rangelands and forests, fisheries and aquaculture, and critically, wildfire.

Trump's proposed budget eliminates this program entirely, allocating $0 for 2026.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

On it! In fact, done it!

Look at that! Thank you, Erik P!

Thanks, Terri!

Enjoy! The last 30 pages are well all the tributaries converge…

See you there!