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- Ready for a check?
- Cello one.
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I'l just call take numbers as we go.
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- Okay.
- Violin one, two, two.
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I've got lots of images in my head.
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So "of" is to be included?
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Okay.
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- How're you doing on my juicy S's?
- That's a fairly easy fix.
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That's what I thought,
I wanted to hear it to reassure me.
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- We're going to go for a take.
- Okay.
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Humans have long loved rivers.
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But as we have learned
to harness their power,
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have we also forgotten to revere them?
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When the first rains fell,
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the Earth awakened.
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It rained without pause
for thousands of years
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sculpting new landscapes into being.
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Drops gathered as streams,
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streams braided into rivers
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growing in force as they flowed
ever onwards and downwards.
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For eons, running water
obeyed only its own laws.
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Patient and persistent,
it wore mountains away.
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It looped and meandered
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laying down great plains
of lush, rich silt.
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Where rivers wandered,
life could flourish.
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For rivers are world-makers.
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They have shaped the Earth,
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and they have shaped us as a species.
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For thousands of years
we worshiped rivers,
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as the arteries of the planet,
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the givers of gifts,
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the well-springs of wonder.
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Rivers are the source of human dreams,
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and they have flowed
through our lives as surely
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as they have flowed through places.
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High among peaks
flow vast rivers of ice.
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Glaciers seem frozen into stasis,
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yet they are always in flux.
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Their ice has currents,
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rapids,
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eddies.
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Crevasses creak open where
they spill down valleys,
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or carve round comers.
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And through these glaciers,
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wind streams of meltwater.
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Freed by the sun from its
slow-motion existence as ice,
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running water starts to
sing its way to the sea.
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To be truly alive, a river must be wild,
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wilful and unhindered.
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Yearning for the ocean,
its only purpose
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is to descend.
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For millions of years
humans wandered the earth.
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It was rivers that
created fertile valleys;
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made it possible for us
to settle and to dwell.
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The first cities arose on
the banks of great waterways.
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Our early destiny was shaped
by the will of rivers.
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We both feared and revered
them as forces of life,
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and of death.
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We worshiped them as Gods.
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Rivers inspired us as a species,
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allowing us to thrive.
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Over time, they became the
highways by which trade,
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and technology spread inland,
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and along them also flowed poetry,
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stories and religions,
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politics and conflict.
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Rivers grew our towns and cities
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but they were also indifferent
to human plans and dreams.
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Fickle and unpredictable,
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in flood they could wreak havoc,
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and in drought
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they could disappear completely.
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And so, we devised extraordinary
means of controlling them,
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of hamessing their force
and taming their wildness.
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We discovered how to
regulate and manage them,
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how to run them like machines.
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We shifted from seeing
rivers as living beings
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to seeing them as resources.
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Our gods
had become our subjects.
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Qur ability to control rivers
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has changed the course of history.
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Droughts and floods have been averted,
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arid land made fertile.
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Rivers have helped make
war and bring peace.
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They have shaped empires,
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divided nations and nourished humanity.
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In many places the river is still revered,
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still vital to life,
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and to death.
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The worship of water is a
given to millions of people.
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The river's power remains a sacred power.
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It heals, consoles, and purges.
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It washes away sin and purifies the dead.
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It is a source of hope, love, and longing.
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It is the way of life.
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To those who live and die by the river,
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their river is the river.
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Essential for emotional
and spiritual sustenance.
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Essential for survival.
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We've learned to carry rivers
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to places they would never
naturally have flowed.
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Rivers stil exert an
immense influence upon us.
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A global network of
transport and connection
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scarcely remembered in everyday life.
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Today, the world's greatest cities
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all have a river at their heart.
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Rivers have enabled unimaginable
prosperity for some.
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For all their might though,
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rivers are fragile:
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easily harmed, not so easily mended.
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Vast waterways have been drained,
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and re-directed
to meet our growing needs.
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We've made deserts bloom
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fostering delusions of infinite abundance.
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We've stopped going to the river.
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Now
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we bring the river to us.
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But there's always a downstream cost,
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somebody somewhere must have less.
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The amount of water in the hydrosphere
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hasn't changed since the first rains fell,
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but the number of people on
earth has grown exponentially,
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and every one of us is
utterly dependent on water.
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The sheer scale of the human project
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has begun to overwhelm the world's rivers.
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Today, there is scarcely
a river unspanned,
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undammed, or undiverted.
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The grandest dams have
impounded so much water,
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that they've slowed the
rotation of the earth.
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Dams make miracles possible.
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They conjure clean power
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from little more than water and gravity.
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They slake the thirst of millions.
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They hold back floods
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but at such cost.
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Trapped and static, a
dammed river stagnates.
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Its sediment settles
to the reservoir floor.
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Dams achieve
what should be impossible:
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they drown rivers.
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Once discharged, stripped of its sediment,
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dammed water brings more
damage than life.
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Floodplains and deltas are
no longer nourished by silt.
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The cycle of replenishment
we depend on is broken.
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The power-grids not the seasons
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determine the rivers' flow.
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And the energy that dams generate
often fails to reach those
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who need it most.
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We have riddled our rivers with poisons
in the name of progress.
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Each year blooms of toxic algae
blight more rivers and lakes,
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leaving their water
unswimmable, undrinkable
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even fatal.
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Instead of life-giving
sediment and nutrients,
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rivers now carry millions
of tons of plastic waste
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to the sea each year.
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As ever, the poorest suffer most.
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One country's affluence
is another's affliction.
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Many rivers now fight for survival.
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They gasp for water,
gather behind dams
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are channelled through
cities stripped of life.
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The mystery and beauty
of a wild river
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is beyond our ability to comprehend
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but within our capacity to destroy.
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Rivers that have flowed for eons
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have been cut off in decades.
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Time and again,
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upstream need and upstream greed
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have led to downstream disaster.
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We have become Titans,
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capable of shaping our world
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in ways that will endure for
millions of years to come.
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For time flows too,
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and we stand upstream
of a precarious future.
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The lives of our rivers now
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will determine the destinies
of generations to come.
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We will be remembered for
all that we have depleted,
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vanished and killed.
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We must ask ourselves,
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"Are we being good ancestors?"
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Rivers live in deep time,
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tumbling through millennia.
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They give us so much more than water.
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They course through our imaginations,
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renew our spirits.
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With quiet determination,
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they overcome the hardest
and strongest things.
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They run into the future,
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and they remember the past,
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painting their way across landscapes.
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At last, the river vanishes into the sea.
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Its spirit is never lost forever though,
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its death in the ocean
begins its reincamation.
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Water cannot be created or destroyed,
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it merely changes state,
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in an endless cycle of renewal
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driven by the great engine of the Sun.
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For the atmosphere is alive
with moving water too,
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the sky has rivers.
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Vast Amazons and Niles
of vapour flow from sea
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back to source.
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Together these sky-rivers hold more water
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than all the streams and
rivers on Earth combined.
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Many cultures have never forgotten
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what it means to think like a river,
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or how to listen to rivers.
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They know that the fate of rivers,
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and the fate of humans are inextricable.
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It's easy to forget
that there are places
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and forces which don't respond
fo the flick of a switch,
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or the twist of a dial.
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Which have their own rhythms
and orders of existence.
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Wild rivers correct this amnesia.
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Rivers are vulnerable to our harm,
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but they also possess
miraculous powers of recovery.
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Given a chance their life pours back.
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After years imprisoned behind concrete,
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their sediment is freed
10 carry on downriver,
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and nourish the land again.
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To think like a river
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means to dream downstream in time,
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to imagine what will
flow far into the future
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from our actions in the present,
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to be good ancestors to
those who will come after us,
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downstream of us.
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Look after the river,
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and the river will look after you.
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We share our fate with rivers,
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we flow together.
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