
The Reclus Questionnaire is an interview series tracing the influence of nature on the lives and practices of prominent cultural voices. It is named after Élisée Reclus, the French geographer who wrote that l'homme est la nature prenant conscience d'elle-même—humanity is nature becoming aware of itself. Published twice-monthly, each interview begins with the subject's emergence from nature and ends with their inevitable return to it. Imagined as “Proust for life on a changing planet,” the questionnaire challenges the proclaimed objectivity of contemporary climate discourse, which favors science over other ways of knowing. Seeing environmental knowledge not as learned but as remembered, we look to artists to help us navigate the labyrinthine present, building a living archive of cultural responses to the climate crisis.