Norway Forest Planted For a Future Library

Via Vice, artist Katie Paterson has planted a 1,000 tree forest with the intention of them all being used for a special library of books made one year, every year, for a 100 years.

Scottish artist Katie Paterson has turned what sounds like a nonsensical question into a reality. She's planted a Future Library of 1,000 trees in a forest on the outskirts of Oslo, Norway. She'll then invite a different writer every year for the next century to write a manuscript to be held in trust, unread and unopened, until 2114. Then the trees will be harvested and turned into a special anthology of books, the first of which is being written now by speculative fiction author Margaret Atwood.

Read the full interview, as well as info on the artist on Vice.com.

This Forest Will Become an Anthology of Books in 100 Years by Nell Frizzell.