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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal…
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).
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal…
Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is…
We know God not in his essence, but through the magnificence of his Creation and the action of…
Els éssers creats són servidors de Déu, i la criatura més estimada de Déu és la que serveix…
Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes it law…
Everything is linked with everything else down to the lowest ring of the chain, and the true essence of God is above as well as below, in the heavens as well as on the earth, and nothng exist outside Him.
Thus the goal of the ascetic’s strivings is to perceive all of creation in its original triumphant beuaty….
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world;…
Representatives of several indigenous peoples and nations from countries around and within the Pacific ocean issued the declaration…
The representatives of 170 Indigenous food communities and delegates from 62 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Arctic,…