Robert Macfarlane — The Worlds Beneath Our Feet
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Underworld Tells the Future
In britain, last summer, we had this drought that went on for two months. And these crop marks register the presence of old buried s. But they show up like a kind of x ray. We're back with x rays again on the landscape. They have a power to shift our perception of something as elemental as time. Resent. Epochs and periods are mixing and entangling. Yes, i mean spending six, seven years thinking about the underworld has really matched up my sense of time. It's deepened it. It's tangled it. The other thing is that the underworld tells the future. I was not expecting that at all....
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