Valentí Zapater Barros
Graduate in Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
After completing my studies, I worked for fifteen years as an environmental technician, assessing the effectiveness of environmental…
If you ask me what my religion is, I will say nature.
I have always felt part of it. Although, depending on how you look at it, if we name it, if this word exists, it means we consider ourselves something separate. This is not my idea. The philosopher Timothy Morton says so. And I understand him perfectly. What I do every day has to do with this, in one way or another.
My profession has always been, and continues to be, a balance between applying my knowledge to solving environmental problems and conveying this connection with nature. In fact, I believe that this connection is essential for us to survive as a species in the face of the climate crisis.
In my free time, nothing changes. Some have found me on a mountain top or in the deepest chasms in the world. But always feeling the little fish in a mountain stream tickling my feet, entranced by the flute-like, almost aquatic song of the golden oriole, or taking in the immensity of the surrounding planet, sitting motionless and alone in a cave.
