An essay by Shrishtee Bajpai.

A Living Hill: reflections on animistic worldviews, stories, resistance and hope.

“What if the rivers had the right to perform their ecological functions without any human-made hindrance, just like you and I have to life and speech?

Though for the rights of rivers (and more generally of nature) to be safeguarded, we need major transformations in the consciousness, values, and actions of people living along or using them. Eventually, these rights (beyond the law) have to extend to other non-human objects, helping to move towards a society whose concern or moral consideration expands not just to human community but the entire earth.

Ultimately, we will be able to achieve harmony with the rest of the living world not so much because we have given it legal rights, but rather because it is simply the only way life thrives ….”

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