In a visit to the Future Library in Norway, environmental Professor and Researcher, David Farrier, learns about wild clocks. All organisms have a sense of time embedded in their tissues and organs; they also have “body time” to synchronize with the world around them, sensing their environment for fluctuations like temperatures; and each has a time element for interacting with other organisms in the way bees know “flower time” for optimal pollination. “Time lives in the body, not as the tick of the clock, but as a pulse in the blood. It is a thought, buried deep in nerve, leaf, and gene.” He learns “that time is made between people, animal, and place.” Exacerbated by climate breakdown, wild clocks are increasingly misaligning time between “predators and prey, herbivores and plants, or flowers and pollinators.” “The colonization of time has… deafened us to the rhythm of wild clocks...” Farrier asks, “As wild clocks fall out of measure, can we recalibrate our sense of time and foster a rhythm by which all life can flourish?”
