Close to nature

Year-round, nature plays a decisive role in how we spend our days, and how we plan for the future. The presence or absence of light influences us in our decision-making and influences us as a people. Spring and autumn’s variations from one way of life to another is a reality we all share, nature is constantly turning our existence upside down. We let ourselves be amazed, or perhaps we don’t even think about it at all. We turn as a matter of course our unprotected faces toward the sun’s rays, summer as winter.

The rural areas are where we find our roots, even though most of us live in urban cities. Here we seek out trees and grass, snow and ice. We are still not as urban as our southern neighbours, who have thousands of years of urban culture in their genes. We still move around a bit clumsily in major metropolises, we interact more easily with the nature around us.

From the balcony, the veranda or winter garden we yearn patiently every year for the light and the heat from a soothing, yet unpredictable summer. We long for the cabin in the mountain, the country house by the sea or the campsite by the lake. It is in this easily accessible Scandinavian nature that we come closest to realising our innermost dreams of idyll as well as wilderness.