A life of freedom, independence, and fighting for nature, in the heart of Europe's last primeval forest.

Simona Kossak (1943–2007) was a Polish biologist, zoologist, professor of forest sciences, radio host, and writer. She lived for more than thirty years in a cabin without electricity or running water in Białowieża, one of Europe’s last primeval forests, on the border with Belarus. Now considered a leading ecofeminist figure, she embodied this philosophy of life every day without ever formalizing it: Simona, in fact, never wrote a manifesto. The mark she left can only be followed in the way she taught: with the distance that every wild creature demands — that of respect and freedom.