Listen, pay attention to, and learn from

From Is a River Alive? by Rober Macfarlane (in introduction)

I take the Rights of Nature movement at its best to be a kind of legal 'grammar of animacy': that is to say, an attempt to make structures of power align with perceptions of a world which is far more alive than power usually allows. 'The law,' as the Nyikina Warrwa scholar-activist Anne Poelina puts it, 'is being used creatively to train human beings to listen, pay attention to, and learn from, rivers.' Recognizing nature's rights is one means of trying to tell a different story about the living world: a very old story, given new expression. A story in which the world is 'not a machine after all', as D. H. Lawrence put it, but 'alive and kicking'.