For a long time, I thought that the forests were like the stars and the sky – belonging to everybody, just as much yours as mine. Not until now, with you, forests involve conditions. They are assets. Property. Heritage. The american author Wendell Berry wrote: “The connection to the land, to the source of the local communities and agricultural economies, becomes increasingly abstract and increasingly characterized by a lack of awareness.” What does this lack of awareness do to our perception of the forest?

"Not until now" can be viewed as an independent sibling to "The Power Grid" (2018).

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