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Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music

Life Examined

CHAPTER

Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Up

I wonder if you cand just expand onon what you mentioned earlier, which is just this kind of mythological or biblical notion of looking up toward something. And i think this will perhaps take us to some of your later work, which is looking down. But, but we really have this notion of an up and a down, and a good and a bad. We cind of polarized the two. Ye ye, it's a metaphor we live by,. That amazing phrase, am soyet's one of the simplest.

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