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Wenn nämlich der Rebe Saft...

Wenn nämlich der Rebe Saft,
Das milde Gewächs, suchet Schatten
Und die Traube wächset unter dem kühlen
Gewölbe der Blätter,
Den Männern eine Stärke,
Wohl aber duftend den Jungfraun,
Und Bienen,
Wenn sie, vom Wohlgeruche
Des Frühlings trunken, der Geist
Der Sonne rühret, irren ihr nach
Die Getriebenen, wenn aber
Ein Strahl brennt, kehren sie
Mit Gesumm, vielahnend
          darob
     die Eiche rauschet,

Friedrich Hölderlin

velvet innovation

"'We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of beings which evidently exceeds all our competence.'"

Václav Havel, q. Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, New York: Harper Perennial, 1997.

sleeping king

"After this I asked to be allowed another question. When this was granted, I asked about the event mentioned in many versions of the legends, where the soldiers of the king of the gnomes would awaken if a youth entered the great hall of the underworld and drew the sword from the king's sheath. Immediately the sword was pulled a third of the way out of its sheath. The blade was illuminated like one of the power lines on earth, which we call dragon lines, which glow as they run through the landscape. Simultaneously, I received a message that the youth is a symbol for a new generation of human beings who will rediscover the earth's energy pattern: they will purify it and respect it. When this happens, the fully drawn sword is to be a sign for the elementals that the time has come to return from exile. They will transform the earth into a new Garden of Eden, co-creating it together with humanity."

Marko Pogacnik, Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature, Forres, Scotland: Findhorn Press, 1997, 26.