In spring, the forest near Nani Jansen Reventlow’s home in Denmark awakens from its slumber. While evergreen pines are present all year round, the leaves of the deciduous trees start to bud, re-emerge and flourish. “You almost forget how green it was, how bright the colours are, and how much vegetation there is,” she says. Yet she also takes care to notice the underlying promise and beauty of the life that lies dormant in the year’s colder months. “There’s something about the different layers, and just knowing that there’s all that potential.”

Jansen Reventlow has a similar observation about ...

 

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