East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Beauty of Almaty
In winter there can be three feet of snow for weeks, in Almaty it can be 5 below 0 and here it may be a warm 20 degrees. These saffron meadows burst into flame with tulips and the hills are a huge snow field of wild apple, apricot and hawthorn blossom. I'm sad to leave the solitary Valerie who I instinctively like. When we shake hands it is the two handed lingering double clasp kind with a deep look into the eye. The look says we come from vast distances apart on this earth. Yet I feel a natural spontaneous respect for you. It is very moving that we far flung people from different tribes are clearly first natural
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