Value Change for Survival: All my relations
Oren Lyons / Jo Ag Quis Hi2012
This short film is part of eight testimonial videographic documents about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and carries the eloquent…
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.
Defendiendo con la vida el corazón del mundo
El Hilo de Ariadna: Calixto Suárez2016
Calixto Suarez, the spokesman for the Mamos of the Ik/Arahuaco indigenous people, has temporarily left his ancestral territory,…
A Phenomenological Study Among Spiritually Engaged Individuals in the Netherlands
Gilles Havik, Birgit H. M. Elands, &C. S. A. (Kris) van Koppen2015
Natural environments are the setting for spiritual experiences for people from all over the world. Interpretative phenomenological explorations…
Retorno a la Sacralidad
Swami Satyananda Saraswati2018
Exposé of de Swami Satyananda Saraswati (in Spanish) about the concept of sacrality everywhere, including nature, and the…
Guardians of the Sacred
Christopher McLeod2017
Guardians of the Sacred follows 20 sacred site guardians from around the world as they journey to the…
Popular Religion, Sacred Natural Sites, and “Marian Verdant Advocations” in Spain
Jaime Tatay-Nieto & Jaime Muñoz-Igualada2019
A relevant number of shrines, hermitages, monasteries, and pilgrimage routes in Spain are located within or near Natura…
John Muir
The Yosemite1912
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal…
Pope Francis
Laudato si2015
Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is…
Maximus the Confessor
Spiritual Letters / 7th century
We know God not in his essence, but through the magnificence of his Creation and the action of…
Profeta Muhàmmad
Hadith Nabi (dita profètica)
Els éssers creats són servidors de Déu, i la criatura més estimada de Déu és la que serveix…