Robert Macfarlane — The Worlds Beneath Our Feet
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Language of Spells
Am the wren is this tiny, quick moving bird. We hardly see them in this country, though there are eight million breeding pairs of them. When wren whirs from stone to furze, the world around her slows. Each wren etches stitches, switches, glitches. And wren's song is sharp song, briar song, thorn song. The book is just a a catalist for that makes me think of am,. work that's beeng done studying, you know, in hot in hospitals also, that if people have a window and can a tree outside the window, their healing is accelerated....
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