Life is not useful

generations, and we have to adapt to this, a part of nature and the cycle of life and not pretend to be above it. ‘The feeling for Nature is one of the deepest parts of human nature. It is actually rather straightforward. Our five senses are created to give us access to the infinite world of Nature. It is up to us to develop them to the greatest possible receptivity, thus our own sensitivity for life is expanded, and we get a deeper and fuller sense of being alive. And the present moment of life becomes even richer for us if we can connect it to earlier generations’ [2]. Recently, Kristoffer Garne also wrote about the Danish national icon, the poet and writer N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872) with regard to his views on nature and the environment [4]. In Grundtvig’s work as well as in that of other explicitly Christian Danish authors, he finds elements of Larsen’s thoughts on nature and man’s place in the universe, such as in Grundtvig’s use of metaphors from nature and reference to ‘the natural order of things’ which humans must obey. In the Christian context human beings are mostly considered as above or outside nature, but Garne still find important aspects in favour of environmental ethics in the Danish literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century which could inspire us today, but most consistently so in the works of Thøger Larsen.