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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.
EF Schumacker

Ernst Fritz Schumacher

Small is Beautiful1975

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant…

Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry

The Dream of the Earth1988

We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to…

Cristina-Kaufmann

Cristina Kaufmann

Un aprenentatge amb la natura2004

The transcendent comes to our encounter in nature, outside us and within us as part of nature. The…

Thomas-Aquinas (2)

Thomas Aquina

Summa Theologica1274

Creation is the primary and most perfect revelation of the Divine. The whole universe in its wholeness more…

Amadou Ampate Ba

Amadou Ampâté Bâ

Aspects de la civilisation africaine1972

Men can  reach a common goal without following the same ways.

lanzadelvasto (2)

Lanza del Vasto

Let’s never forget this law: that man, as nature treats, will always end up treating man. Every act…

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