Living Rivers
I say river who flows rather than that flows as a mark of respect and acknowledgement to the life of the river. Let’s not ‘which’ or ‘that’ her into inanimate ‘stuff’ or mere commodity.
Consciously changing our use of language in itself can help to change our habitual and unthought through attitudes of ‘othering’ and deadening the home that we are inseparably part of, by seeing our surroundings as inanimate.