{"id":4651,"date":"2019-04-11T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/?page_id=4651"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:21:44","slug":"majove-machovske-putovani-workshop-naslouchani-reci-zeme","status":"publish","type":"aktivity","link":"https:\/\/www.potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/aktivity\/majove-machovske-putovani-workshop-naslouchani-reci-zeme\/","title":{"rendered":"May M\u00e1chov pilgrimage and workshop "Listening to the language of the land""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring wanderings<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May M\u00e1chov pilgrimage and workshop "Listening to the language of the land"<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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View of \u00da\u0161t\u011bk and Sedlo Mountain from the Baroque Calvary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00da\u0161t\u011bk, Kalv\u00e1rie, Helfenburk, Vlho\u0161\u0165, Holansk\u00e9 ponds, Zahr\u00e1dky, Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond, Provod\u00ednsk\u00e9 stones, Jest\u0159eb\u00ed, Dolsk\u00fd ml\u00fdn, Martinsk\u00e9 st\u011bny, Ronov, \u00da\u0161t\u011bk (a total of 85 km).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 1-5, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We would like to cordially invite you to the May M\u00e1chov hiking and workshop \u201cListening to the Language of the Earth\u201d \u2013 with Lu\u010fek \u010cert\u00edk, Jana Ko\u017enarov\u00e1 and Jirka Zem\u00e1nek \u2013 dedicated to the birds, crickets, hills, rocks, forests, trees and ponds of western Koko\u0159\u00ednsko and the M\u00e1chov region. Inspired by David Abram, poet Mary Oliver and David Haskell. The hiking and workshop will take place from Wednesday, May 1 to Sunday, May 5, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"Whoever you are, lonely or not, the world is open to you."intensity,<\/em>\nCalls to you like wild geese, hoarse and trembling<\/em>\nand ceaselessly announces your place<\/em>\nin the family of existing things.\u201d<\/em>\nMary OLIVER (Wild Geese)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This year's May M\u00e1chov hiking tour will be a workshop in which we will focus on listening to the poetry of the land of western Koko\u0159\u00ednsko and M\u00e1chov region and especially the songs of birds. Our hiking workshop will take place in the landscape around the mysterious Vlho\u0161\u0165 mountain, in the area of Holansk\u00e9 ponds, in the Jest\u0159ebsk\u00e1 basin with the Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond, which is an important ornithological locality, and in the area of Provod\u00ednsk\u00e9 stones. This time we will set off from \u00da\u0161t\u011bk and the next day, after walking for about twenty-five kilometers, we will settle in a campsite Aero Holany<\/a> at the Mil\u010dansk\u00fd pond, from where we will take trips to the surrounding area in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inspired by the ideas of the American eco-philosopher David Abram<\/strong> Through sensory perception and imagination, we will try to become aware of our mutuality with the world of surrounding nature. Using the perception of air and breath, we will evoke that we live more immersed inside the earth than on the earth: that the earth is as present in us as we are in it; that we are part of a speaking, more than human world, in which there is no great difference between when we speak and when the trees speak: just as they do, we use the wind to do so. We will perceive the songs of birds, the concerts of frogs, the rustling of trees and the splashing of a stream as the expressive language of the landscape and we will recall Abram's question whether our human language itself is not originally born of the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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"A blooming forest of melodies, cheers and laments, note after note ignites, gushes forth as in the night when lightning strikes, it flashes, catches up, screams, intertwines, welcomes, blows, passes, the bells of the thrush, the flute of the blackbird, it pours into my dreams like dew into lilies."<\/em>\nJaroslav VRCHLICK\u00dd (Nightingales)<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
View of Vlho\u0161t\u011b from the Baroque Calvary near \u00da\u0161t\u011bk<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this context, we will recall some animist oral cultures that shared or still share a similar experience of a soulful speaking land and the associated expanded understanding of language; and we will also recall some poets and artists: Gary Snyder, Jaroslav Vrchlick\u00fd, David Rothenberg, Milo\u0161 \u0160ejn. Ludek Certik<\/strong>, filmmaker and poet, introduces us to the poetry and life of the American poet Mary Oliver<\/strong> (1935-2019), with the ideas of American biologist David Haskell, author of the book The Songs of Trees<\/em> (Songs of the trees<\/em>), and the British philosopher Timothy Morton. As an amateur ornithologist, he will guide us in bird watching; he will teach us to listen to their voices and recognize them, understand<\/em> them. It will introduce us to the nature and functions of bird song, as understood by (not only) current scientific research, and to some interesting connections between human speech (possibly music) and bird songs. We recommend that you bring binoculars for bird watching.<\/p>\n\n\n
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David Abram argues that if we want to engage in a more intimate conversation with the living earth around us, we should stop talking only \u201cabout\u201d the world and start talking \u201cto\u201d the world: \u201cShout to the winds, whisper to the rivers and deer...<\/em>". To open ourselves to a more performative way of speaking that can draw us into a living poetic dialogue with other beings of the earth. Practicing our own voice in Jana Ko\u017enarov\u00e1's voice workshops<\/strong> should indicate this potential to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your possible participation in the seminar report no later than April 15th<\/strong> for booking accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday 1. 5.: \u00da\u0161t\u011bk, Ostr\u00e9, Kalvarie, Helfenburk, V\u010del\u00ed hrad, Mal\u00fd Vlho\u0161\u0165 (15 km)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
We will meet in Prague at the main train station at 6:20, from where we will take the train to U\u0161t\u011bk at 6:51 (see connections<\/a>), where we will arrive at 8:44. We will walk through the historic center of the city and continue along the road to Ostr\u00fd to the hill. Calvary<\/em> with a baroque pilgrimage area and the Stations of the Cross and the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre by Ottavo Broggio; from here there is a unique view of \u00da\u0161t\u011bk and Mount Sedlo in the Bohemian Central Mountains and also towards Vlho\u0161\u0165 to Koko\u0159\u00ednsko. From Kalvarija we will head to Hr\u00e1deck\u00fd d\u016fl and the ruins of M\u00e1cha's favorite rock castle Helfenburg<\/em> and from there we will reach the village of Skalka, where we will have lunch. We will continue along the red and blue trails to Silver Hill<\/em> (400 m above sea level) and further to Vlho\u0161\u0165sky mine<\/em> and on Little Vlho\u0161\u0165 <\/em>(440 m above sea level), where we spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In front of Helfenburk Castle <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the Silver Hill, with Vlho\u0161\u0165 in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the road below Vlho\u0161t\u011bm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
"In a sense, we all have to become poets."<\/p>David ABRAHAM<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Thursday 2.5.: Vlho\u0161\u0165, Holany, Dolansk\u00fd and Ko\u0148sk\u00fd ponds, Babylon, Mili\u010dansk\u00fd pond (15 km)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The next morning, we first ritually circumambulate the massive, cumulus-shaped Zn\u011blce mountain. Vlho\u0161\u0165 <\/em>(613 m above sea level), the highest mountain in the entire Koko\u0159\u00ednsko region. There is a nature reserve with rubble forests (beech forests and relict pines) here, and the wood pigeon and the peregrine falcon nest here; if we are lucky, we may hear its "rehk, rehk, rehk". From Vlho\u0161t\u011b we then set off along the blue trail along Court stones<\/em> until Holany. We will stay at the Aero Holany campsite near Mil\u00ed\u010dansk\u00fd pond<\/em>In the afternoon we will set off across the system of Holansk\u00e9 ponds (built during the time of Charles IV) around the largest Dolansk\u00fd pond<\/em> up to To the Heavenly Pond<\/em> and Horse Pond<\/em> with the famous rock Grim Reaper<\/em>, where we will remember the story of Milo\u0161 Urban's novel Hastman<\/em>; we listen to the frog concert here in the early evening. We will continue through the Kozelsk\u00e1 ravine to Babylon<\/em> and through Hostikovice<\/em> and along Mil\u010dansk\u00fd pond<\/em> We will return to the camp where we will spend the night.  <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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View of Vlho\u0161\u0165 across Dolansk\u00fd pond <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of the Horse Pond from the Death Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Holansk\u00fd pond \u2013 on the horizon of the mountains Vlho\u0161\u0165, Sedlo and Ronov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
"Perception is the basis of everything because it teaches us an almost obsessive relationship with being: it is there in front of us and yet it touches us from within."<\/p>Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Friday 3.5.: Holany, Zahr\u00e1dky, Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond, Provod\u00ednsk\u00e9 stones, Jest\u0159eb\u00ed, Prusk\u00fd k\u00e1men, Holany (20 km)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In the morning we will set off along the blue trail through a beautiful linden forest. Wallenstein Alley<\/em> to the village Gardens<\/em> and from there we will continue along the yellow to the national nature reserve Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond<\/em>, a European important ornithological site, which is the center of the \u010ceskolipsko bird area. Here, at the bird observatory, Lu\u010fek \u010cert\u00edk and I will observe water and wetland birds, listen to their calls and learn to recognize them. For example, the occurrence of the endangered whooping crane and the white-tailed eagle has been recorded here. We will continue along the shore of the Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond to Provod\u00edn and from there we will ascend to Bald Rock<\/em> (Sleeping virgin<\/em>, 419 m above sea level), a dominant Provod\u00edn Stones<\/em>, under which we will take a voice workshop with Jana Ko\u017enarov\u00e1 in the meadow. Then we will go down to Jestrebi<\/em> and we climb here to the ruins of the local rock castle. We continue along the red trail to Prussian stone<\/em> (351 m above sea level) in Long ridge<\/em> and from there along the Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond to the Dolsk\u00fd stream<\/em> to Summer Palace<\/em> and after the blue we will return to the campsite at Mil\u010dansk\u00fd pond<\/em>where we will sleep.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On the top of Lys\u00e1 sk\u00e1la (Sleeping Virgin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sleeping Pana (Provod\u00edn Stones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Novoz\u00e1meck\u00fd pond from the bird observatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
"As strange as it is, it is true that the acquisition of human language is in many ways similar to the way birds acquire song."<\/p>Johan BOLHUIS<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Saturday 4.5.: Holany\u2013Dolsk\u00fd ml\u00fdn\u2013D\u0159ev\u010dice\u2013Martinsk\u00e9 st\u011bny\u2013Mal\u00fd Vlho\u0161\u0165-Holany (16 km)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In the morning we will set off on the green to Dolsky Valley<\/em>through which it flows Dolsky stream<\/em> and let's remember this place field of study V\u0159\u00edsek<\/em>, where the Renaissance castle of the same name is located, which the poet Karel Hynek M\u00e1cha visited and drew. We will continue through the Dolsk\u00e9 Valley with a number of rock formations to To the Dolsk\u00fd mill<\/em>, to Devil's Gorge<\/em> up to Drev\u010dice <\/em>and at the crossroads Velka Rebcice<\/em>where we turn red on Goose path<\/em>which will lead us to a natural monument Martin's Walls<\/em>, which is an exceptional example of relict pine on sandstone rocks and is home to rare communities of invertebrates. We will visit two sandstone rock overhangs Stalactite<\/em> (47 m long) and Thousand Stone<\/em> (30 m long) and we will go up to the sandstone plateau and the peak Goose<\/em> (449 m above sea level) with a unique fragment of sandstone rocks. From Husa we descend again to Little Vlho\u0161\u0165 (<\/em>440 m above sea level) with beautiful relict pine trees and we will continue along the blue and yellow to the village Robbery<\/em> and Loubsk\u00fd mine<\/em> to Dolsky Valley<\/em>which will lead us to the campsite at Mil\u010dansk\u00fd pond<\/em>where we spend the night.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Pine trees on Martinsk\u00e9 st\u011bny <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026the animistic experience is not only related to the knowledge that everything is alive, but also to the realization that everything speaks, that everything is at least potentially endowed with the ability to express itself.\u201d<\/p>David ABRAHAM<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Sunday 5.5.: Ko\u0148sk\u00fd rybn\u00edk\u2013Stvol\u00ednky\u2013Ronov\u2013Bl\u00ed\u017eevedly\u2013Ostr\u00e9\u2013Kalv\u00e1rie\u2013\u00da\u0161t\u011bk (18 km)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In the morning we will follow the red trail across By the Dutch ponds<\/em> up to Horse Pond<\/em>where we climb the rock Grim Reaper <\/em>and we say goodbye to the local landscape. We will go around Ko\u0148sk\u00fd rybn\u00edk following the red line and reach the village Stvol\u00ednky<\/em>, which is located on the border of the Ralsk\u00e1 pahorkatina and the Bohemian Central Mountains; we will visit the local memorable linden tree and old larch in the former castle park and from there we will continue along the red trail to the top of the beautiful basalt cone Ronov<\/em> (552 m above sea level) with the ruins of the Gothic castle of the same name. From Ronov we descend to the village Closer to home<\/em> and we will visit the nearby rock castle Shaft<\/em> and we will continue through red and yellow to the baroque Calvary<\/em> at Ostry<\/em>We stop for lunch in Ostr\u00fd and then go down to The barking<\/em>from where we will return to Prague by train.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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"That's why I was born,
to look, to listen,
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\u201cMind is not a human quality: it is a quality of the earth. \u2026 It is the earth that is truly intelligent, not isolated humanity. Together with other animals, plants, and the drifting clouds, we are bodily immersed in the mind of this living world.\u201d<\/p>David Abram<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
"Earth,... I live with you, in you, on you, I feel with you and in you, as you feel in me."<\/p>Karel Hynek M\u00c1CHA<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Accommodations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
From May 2nd to 5th we will be staying at the campsite Aero Holany<\/a> by the Mil\u010dansk\u00fd pond in cottages. The price for one night with buffet breakfast is 310 CZK. It is also possible to arrange a vegetarian dinner for 100 CZK, which we recommend (you cannot cook in the cottages and there is no shop in the immediate vicinity). Accommodation and meals must be booked in advance by mid-April. If you are interested, please contact Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hr\u016fza \u2013 tomashruza@gmail.com<\/a>, mobile: 775 052 607. Please register your participation in the seminar no later than April 15th to reserve accommodation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Connections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Prague \u2013 \u00da\u0161t\u011bk on Wednesday, May 1st (train)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
departure from Prague main station: departure from Prague in 6:51<\/strong> \u2013 transfer Lovosice \/ arrival 7:57, departure 8:01 \u2013 arrival in \u00da\u0161t\u011bk in 8:44<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
departure from Prague in 8:51<\/strong> \u2013 transfer Lovosice \/ arrival 9:57, departure 10:01 \u2013 arrival in \u00da\u0161t\u011bk in 10:44<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00da\u0161t\u011bk \u2013 Prague on Saturday, May 5th (train)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
departure from \u00da\u0161t\u011bk in 13:12<\/strong> \u2013 transfer Lovosice \/ arrival 13:55, departure 13:59 \u2013 arrival in Prague hl.n. 15:10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
departure from \u00da\u0161t\u011bk in 15:12<\/strong> \u2013 transfer Lovosice \/ arrival 15:55, departure 15:59 \u2013 arrival in Prague Hole\u0161ovice 16:59<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contact and further information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
George Zemanek<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
sarvanga@centrum.cz<\/a>
777 117 466<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomas Hruza<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
tomashruza@gmail.com<\/a>
775 052 607<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ludek Certik<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
certik.ludek@gmail.com<\/a>
723 037 847<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barbora Kinkalova<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
B.KINKALOVA@seznam.cz<\/a>
776 123 969<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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"I believe that a lot of good would come from a change in attitude if tourists became pilgrims again."<\/p>Rupert SHELDRAKE<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Ludek Certik<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(born 1989) Graduate of the Department of Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague and the Department of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University in Brno, program director of the Prague Short Film Festival, an enthusiastic walker and observer, advocate and friend of everything green, wild, and sensitive. He lives and works in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice. He occasionally writes and lectures about film \u2013 mostly about the work of American-born Terrence Malick, but also about (artistic) nature films. He also makes films himself. He translates and writes his own poetry, and sometimes articles dedicated to broader environmental topics and prominent figures from the artistic sphere whose work has an environmental impact. He is currently preparing his first poetry collection and a representative selection of the poetry of the recently deceased American poet Mary Oliver. He collaborates with the Pilgrim association and also with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He has published in magazines Film and Time<\/em>, Seventh generation<\/em>, Universe<\/em> and regularly contributes to the \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice cultural magazine Milk & Honey<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George Zemanek<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(born 1953) Art historian and cultural activist. He studied art history and ethnography at Masaryk University in Brno and worked as a professional in several state galleries. Since 2000 he has been a freelance curator: he has organized exhibitions Wilderness \u2013 nature, soul, language<\/em> (Klatovy-Klenov\u00e1 Gallery 2002), From the ground, over the hill to the sky<\/em> \u2026 (SG Litom\u011b\u0159ice, 2005) etc. He is interested in the overlaps of art in the field of ecology and spirituality; as a cultural activist he is dedicated to the issue of the evolution of culture and the emergence of a new integral worldview. He is the author of texts with eco-philosophical and holistic themes, translator and editor of publications: Geomancy and Integral Culture<\/em> (2008); David Abram, Awakening to the living land<\/em> (2009); David Abram, The magic of the senses<\/em> (2013) etc. He and his friends founded the association PILGRIM \u2013 The Wandering University of Nature, which seeks creative ways to re-establish human culture in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jana Koznarova<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
is a voice workshop instructor for teachers, lecturers and the general public. She specializes in exercises to prevent voice disorders, to relax the voice and to strengthen the expression and dynamics of vocal expression. She draws on her own experience in choral and solo singing and on the teaching skills acquired as a lecturer in ecological educational programs at Quiver's Yard<\/a>Currently, she mainly leads voice workshops for lecturers of Environmental Education Centers. She works in organizations AMPI association<\/a>, COCONUT<\/a>, Envira<\/a> and THERESA<\/a> on the topics of urban community growing and composting, community supported agriculture (CPA), organic farming and environmental education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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David Abram<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(born 1957) is an American ecophilosopher, storyteller, and magician, founder and creative director of Alliance for Wild Ethics<\/em> (AWE). He is the author of two key books on ecological philosophy: The Spell of the Sensuous<\/em> (1996; in Czech The magic of the senses<\/em>(DharmaGaia 2013) and Becoming Animal<\/em> (2010). The ideas of both these revolutionary works, in which he reveals the deep interconnectedness of man with "more than the human world<\/em>"nature, inspired the creation of a film essay Becoming Animal<\/em> (Emma Davie, Peter Mettler \/ 2018). The phenomenology of perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the personal experience and lessons he learned from the indigenous oral cultures of Asia and the Americas were of fundamental importance to Abram's philosophical thinking. Abram explores new possibilities for the ecology of perception and the ethics of language; he understands the current ecological crisis as a crisis of our perception of the world and evokes the forgotten experience of being enchanted within a living, soulful earth: he seeks to resurrect an earthly cosmology. In addition to the book The Magic of the Senses, an anthology of the author's six essays has been published in Czech Awakening to the living land<\/em> (OPS Nymburk, 2009) and his other texts were published in magazines Seventh Generation, Ekolist, Prom\u00e9ny, Prostor magazine, A2 weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat a mystery is air, what a riddle it is to our senses! On the one hand, air is the most penetrating presence I can ever mention \u2013 it surrounds me, embraces and caresses me both inside and outside, it undulates along my skin, flows between my fingers, swirls around my arms and thighs, winds in eddies along the roof of my mouth: it flows continuously through my throat and my windpipe and fills my lungs, nourishes my blood, my heart and myself. Without the participation of this fluid element, I cannot move, speak or even think a single thought. I am immersed in its depths as naturally as a fish in the sea. (\u2026) And it is this invisible enigma that is the real mystery that allows life to be lived. \u2026 We could say that air is the soul of the visible landscape, the mysterious realm from which all beings draw their nourishment. As the real mystery of living presence It is the most intimate absence from which the present presence around us emerges, and therefore the lost key to the forgotten presence of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David Abram, The magic of the senses <\/em>(DharmaGaia, 2013, pp. 271-272 translation: Michaela Melechovsk\u00e1 and Ji\u0159\u00ed Zem\u00e1nek)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2026 more important than the content of what we say is the style of our speech, the form of our speech, the rhythm of our rapping. The music and texture of our speech must somehow carry meaning, must correspond at every point to meaning. Our deepest intention makes itself felt in the cadence, rhythm, and melody of our speech. If we are not in fact disembodied minds floating outside the world, but sentient and feeling animals\u2014corporeal beings tangibly embedded in the breathing body of the world\u2014then language is first and foremost a thing of expression, the structured sounds by which our bodies call to other bodies, whether it be the moon, or the geese cawing overhead, or another human being. It is indeed a kind of singing. Even the most bombastic and abstract speech is still a kind of singing, a way of singing the world. (\u2026 )In a sense, we all have to become poets. This does not mean that we should write poems for the sake of poetry. anthology \u2013 no. (\u2026) We must notice the music in our speech. (\u2026) we do not speak only as disembodied minds to other abstract minds, but as sentient and feeling creatures we address other sentient creatures, so that our animal bodies are moved and are brought into the conversation so that even other animals are not excluded from this conversation. We feel their presence close to us and so we are careful not to violate our solidarity with them and with the living, soulful earth.\u201d<\/p>
David Abram in an interview with Derrick Jensen (July 2000 \/ translation: Ji\u0159\u00ed Zem\u00e1nek)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Mary Oliver<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(1935-2019) was a leading American poet. In her work, she followed the work of two great classics of American poetry: Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. However, many of her poems also bear the distinct stamp of the mystical poetry of Rumi and the verses of the English romantic poet and visionary William Blake. She is the author of soulful natural lyrics \u2013 she wrote her poems with the conviction that the natural world is the fundamental source of poetry. Her poems are characterized by a minimalist expression, moderation in poetic images and a relaxed, almost conversational, civil tone. For Oliver, the model reader was not other poets, but each of us. She did not understand the poem as a puzzle, but as a space for feeling: as breathing green thing<\/em>. Mary Oliver's poetry is essentially enlightened, sunny. It is the poetry of dawn, the poetry of the solstice (morning is a constant presence in her poems), but also poetry that is essentially pedestrian, unroofed and amorous. However, Oliver's subject of interest is not so much love between a man and a woman (or other sexes), but love for the world as such \u2013 the ultimate goal of poetic expression. As Oliver herself says in one of her famous poems: My job is to love the world.<\/em>. With his seductively simple verses, he teaches us how to become attentive children again \u2013 how to give thanks, how to hope, how to find joy and pleasure in the simple and non-violent, how to discover (a reflection of) ourselves in the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don't have to be a paragon of virtue.
You don't have to travel hundreds of miles, your knees all sore,
to trudge through the desert like a penitent.
But let loose the soft beast of your body,
Let him love what he desires.
Confess your troubles to me, and I will reveal mine to you.
Meanwhile, the world will go on its way.
The sun and the clear pebbles of rain
Meanwhile they will travel across the lands,
through prairies and deep forests,
mountains and rivers.
And the wild geese, high up in the clear blue sky,
Meanwhile, they head home again.
Whoever you are, lonely or not,
The world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like wild geese, hoarse and trembling \u2014
and ceaselessly announces your place
in the family of existing things.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Mary Oliver, Wild geese<\/em> (translation: Lud\u011bk \u010cert\u00edk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Grey heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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