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The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.

It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values ​​of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Document type
  • Information and sensitization
    Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values ​​of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values ​​in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends.
  • International declarations
    Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them.
  • Legal documents
    Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope.
  • Management documents
    Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values ​​of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources.
  • Planning documents
    Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions.
  • Reflections on nature and spirituality
    Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations.
  • Reflections on science and spirituality
    Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge.
  • Strategical documents
    Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national
  • Videographers
    Movies, documentaries and interviews
  • Wisdom quotes
    Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
ibnarabi (2)

Muḥammad ibnʿArabī

The Bezels of Wisdom / Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam1240

Allah manifests Himself in a special way in every creature. He is the Outwardly Manifest in every graspable…

Fritjof Capra (2)

Fritjof Capra

The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision2014

Ultimately, deep ecological awareness is spiritual awareness. When the concept of the human spirit is understood as the…

TS-Eliot-009

Thomas S. Eliot

Christianity and Culture1940

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Ralph-Waldo-Emerson (2)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Collected Works of Ralph Aldo Emerson1971

To the dull mind, all nature is boring. To the enlightened mind, the whole world flashes and shines…

face of God (2)

The Face of God

Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration2020

The Face of God is a major new documentary film about God and nature, faith and climate change, and…

Eisntein

Albert Einstein

Religion and Science1930

There is a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form….

Edith-Stein (2)

Edith Stein

Essays on Woman1956

Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His…

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