There are words that resonate within us like ancient echoes, ancestral reminiscences: “forest” is one of them. The forest is not merely a collection of trees, a teeming ecosystem, a green lung; it is that deep place of imagination and memory, a cultural matrix, a boundary between the known and the unknown, a sanctuary of otherness. Its “call” cannot be reduced to an invitation to rediscover nature: it is a reminder, in the strongest sense, of the original bond between humankind and the sylvan world, a bond that is at once material, symbolic and philosophical.
GUESTS
- Muriel Barbery, writer
- Francis Hallé, botanist and biologist
For personal reasons, Francis Hallé is obliged to withdraw from the Conversations under the Tree and asks you to accept his apologies. - Artémis Anest, botanist, ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Montpellier
- Ernst Zürcher, forestry engineer, doctor of Natural Sciences, professor and researcher in wood science
- Christian Lapie, artist
