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).
All things are connected, like the blood that unites our family. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does it to himself.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us,…
In the mystery of eternity, the experience of a bliss, even a passing one, extends to all human…
The initial step for a soul to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of…
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
All creation is an illusory projection of the transcendental aspects of God in the mirror of its immanence….Illusion…
The Qur’an’s emphasis on the sacred and methaphysical dimension of the universe should lead to a change in…
In the ideas of reneweing yourself and the ideas of finding peace in our community, you should tell…
Do not fear, for the mortals are divine by race, to whom holy Nature everything will reveal and…