“A forest can be shaped out of words or clay, and so too forests can bring together strangers. The connection can be bewilderingly powerful.”

“Unbeknownst to each other, strangers might make startlingly similar discoveries about forests – discoveries that resonate kinship on a visceral level. Kulju once wrote: ‘The imprint of my palm on the clay looks like a leaf stem.’… In the wilds, we humans understand that we are not above nature but part of something bigger, members of an ecosystem. Insignificance is rarely a positive feeling, except in a forest.”

Anni Kytömäki, author