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.
Andreas Weber
Enlivenment. Eine Kultur des Lebens. Versuch einer Poetik für das Anthropozän2015
Our mono-cultural worldview is literally preventing us from understanding the deeper causes of our multiple crises.
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World1997
Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are “true” or “false,” but rather the kind…
Hernik Skolimowski
Living Philosophy: Eco-Philosophy as a Tree of Life1992
The three basic ecological values, namely reverence, responsibility and austerity are so interconnected that the meaning of each…
Philip Sherrard
The Rape of Man and Nature1987
The created world is God’s sacrament of Himself to Himself in His creatures: it is the means whereby…
Seeing God Everywhere. Qur’anic Perspectives on the Sanctity of Virgin Nature
Reza Sha-Khazemi2018
This essay addresses four themes on the spiritual values of nature from the Islamic perspective: The first is…
Azad Rasool
Turning Toward the Heart2002
The path to the love of God passes through the valley of service –service not only to human…
Jalal ad Dîn Rumi
Rhymed Couplets of Deep Spiritual Meaning1273
I died to the mineral state and became a plant; I died to the vegetable state and reached…
David J. Bohm
Wholeness and the Implicate Order1980
Wholeness is what is real, and fragmentation is the response of this whole to man’s action, guided by…
Therese of Lisieux
Story of a Soul1898
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.