John O’Donohue
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace2005
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many…
Documentation centre
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).
- 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.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Epistola CVI1130
Believe, my dear friend, to my own experience. You will learns much more in the woods than in…
Pierre Rabhi
Vers la sobriété hereuse2013
By beauty I mean one that flourishes in generosity, equity and respect. That alone is capable of changing…
Inteligencia vital
Jordi Pigem 2016
In this interview, Dr. Jordi Pigem, a philosopher of science, summarizes the postmaterialist vision of life and consciousness…
Culture, Spirituality and Conservation
Society for Conservation Biology2019
Short, beautiful and significative film on Culture, Spirituality and Conservation produced by the Society of Conservation Biology Religion…
Paissios of Mount Athos
Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit2004
This herb is an icon; this stone is an icon; I can embrace it, venerate it, because it…
Upanishad Svetasvara
He is God, hidden in all beings, his inner soul, present in everything. He watches over the works…
Hahaka Sapa / Black Elk
The Sacred Pipe1953
We have to understand that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We have to know…
Guardians of the Heart of the World
Warning of the Elder brother to the Younger brother, from the Heart of the World1990
Until now we had ignored our little brother. We had not deigned ourselves to give him a seed….
