Status Updates From Is a River Alive?

"It seems clear to me then...that to say a river is alive is not an anthropomorphic claim. A river is not a human person, nor vice versa. Each withholds from the other in different ways. To call a river alive is not to personify a river, but instead further to deepen and widen the category of 'life,' and in doing so...'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in.'"

" 'If fungi were to speak,' says Giuliana, 'they would tell us what they show us, which is that really death of an organism is the beginning of countless others; that there is no end to life, just a constantly shifting substrate.' "