Olafur Eliasson

Something that is actually, no matter what, already influenced or touched by human activities.

Yeah, I think I was only 23 or 24 when I heard the word climate crisis or the fact that there was something in nature which was relativized by human activities.

I am so old that I remember there was nature on one side and then culture on the other side, as I talked about before.

And nature somehow was untouchable.

It just was beyond what we could somehow influence.

When I walked and hiked when I was 18 or 16 or 20, when I hiked across Iceland, I was afraid of nature.

What would I do if there was a snowstorm suddenly?

I was afraid of my life.

I somehow learned to look at the clouds.

I learned over the years to connect with nature.

And in some way, I sensitized myself.

I sort of cultivated simply because I had to, in a sense.

When the river looks like this on the surface, I cannot walk across it.

But over there, it looks like this on the surface.

I could wait, take off my boots and carry my backpack over there.

And that somehow allowed for a degree of synchronizing that also had to do with time or slowness.

Because you develop a sensitivity to kind of

almost like a way of being defensive or to protect yourself.

I was very lucky to develop this relationship with slowness or relationship with a sensitivity.

This climate psychologist who talks about the loss of this connection to nature being a collective trauma.