Britt McCubbin’s Reviews > Is a River Alive? > Status Update

"The loneliness Wilson had in mind is not that of a human deprived of the company of other humans, miserable though that can be. It’s the solitude of one species which is left, as a consequence of its own actions, isolated on the Earth. It is the silence of a mute planet on which the speech, song and stories of other beings have become inaudible because extinguished."