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.
Confucius / K’ung Fu Tzu
Analectes / Selected Sayings-479
When the natural prevails over the culture, it gives a savage; when culture prevails over the natural, it…
Plaidoyer pour les animaux
Matthieu Ricard2015
Interview of Matthieu Ricard granted inFrench to the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in Paris, France, on November 4, 2014,…
Matthieu Ricard
A Plea for the Animals2016
It is incumbent upon us all to continue to favor the advent of justice and impartial compassion towards…
William Law
The Way to Divine Knowledge1752
This world, with all its Stars, elements, and Creaters, is come out from the invisible World; it has…
Anagarika Govinda
The Way of the White Clouds1966
If we look at the world … with the eyes of the spirit, we will discover that the…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann1998
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious (…) She is always right, and the errors…
Joanna Macy
Dharma Rain. Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism2000
We can reframe our pain as compasion. As we open to our anguish, we can see it as…
Anandamayi Ma
The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma2007
In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further,…
Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Encountering the Mystery.Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today2008
Spiritual life requires proper veneration -and not an absolute worship- of the creation of God. Our relationship with…