Knowledge and movement | Robert Macfarlane

Описание: Much of the work I have done, and so many others have done, is delaminating, teasing apart, the relationship between matter, the given world; land, the land of landscape; and scape, the scaping that we do, that we are always doing in our ongoing imaginative, emotional and bodily relationships with land, with place.

About Robert Macfarlane :
"I am a professor of literature and the environmental humanities at the University of Cambridge, an official fellow of Emmanuel College and one of the directors of studies in English. I am also a writer of books, films, music and operas about nature, climate, landscape, people and place. Much of my research is concerned with the environmental humanities and covers a range of interests: from geology and literature and environment to phenomenology and virtualization, ideas of nature and wildness to land ownership and the global Rights of Nature movement. I am a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the recipient of both the 2017 EM Forster Prize for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2023 inaugural Weston International Award. I am a 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner. As a writer, I have published books in more than 30 languages. I have collaborated with the artist Jackie Morris to co-create two books of nature poetry and art, and I have written operas, plays and films including River (2022) and Mountain (2017), both narrated by Willem Dafoe. As a lyricist, I have written songs and albums with musicians including Johnny Flynn, with whom I have released two albums, Lost in the Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon also Rises (2023)."

Key Points
The first principle of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.
Walking is our oldest technology for thinking and perceiving; we know as we go, and movement lets the world touch back and shape knowledge.
We have lost touch with the world, contact with the world, as a daily part of lived experience.
Knowledge is necessarily incomplete; the thing to be known grows with the knowing, so humility and curiosity beat conquest.
Landscape is not just land but perception at work, and deep time dwarfs human scales and charges us with long-term responsibility.