Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music
Life Examined
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What Are You Writing About?
The underworld is where we put our most precious things. We shelter the dead, the loved ones in a place below the earth so they will be safe. And every time we open up a new horizon to the underworld, like deep sea mining, right now, we were there to plunder it. So that sheltering and then yielding. Well, you know, we flush our waste into the sewers. The stuff that scares us, we we burry because we don't want it back on the surface. You knowwewe have drilled millions of kilometers of bore hole for oil alone. Now we wew we, we take coal. We take all our raw materials.
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