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an arboriculturist. The young man resisted the pressure to limit his outlook
to the academic viewpoint. He quit university, but later did graduate from
forest school with state certification as a forest warden, and then apprenticed
under an older warden. Throughout his life he continued to learn,
from books and wise observers as well as directly from nature.
ROYAL GAMEKEEPER
Schauberger had the opportunity—rare in this century—of living for years
in a vast unspoiled forest. After the First World War ended, Prince Adolf
von Schaumburg-Lippe hired him to guard 21,000 hectares [51,870 acres]
of mostly virgin forest in a remote district. As he patiently observed
rhythms of life in this huge watershed, Schauberger saw phenomena
which may be impossible to find today. One terrifying example, which in
the end impressed him with the self-regulation of nature, was a landlocked
lake which rejuvenated itself before his eyes. One warm day he was about
to strip and swim in the isolated lake, when it roared with sudden movement.
Whorls appeared on the surface and half-submerged logs started to
move. The debris circled, faster and faster while a massive whirlpool
formed in the middle of the lake. Then the huge logs sucked into the centre
upended and disappeared into the whirlpool. After the waters stilled
momentarily, a gigantic waterspout startled Schauberger even more. Turning
as it rose, the spout reached as high as a house then settled back, and
the waters began to rise on the shore. The young gamekeeper ran; he had
seen enough. But the incident added to the mystery of this substance
which fascinated him—water. Schauberger was well-placed for developing
his unique understanding of water; his workplace was big enough for
interconnected life processes to mesh without hindrance there. Life forms
interacted in balance; it was still an unbroken web of life.
Six foot tall Viktor at that time of his life was said to be a picture of
contentment—muscular good health from hiking the high country, and
alert intelligence described in his facial features—farseeing eyes, the
slight curve of his nose reminiscent of an eagle's beak, and the determined
but good-humoured set to his mouth. He wrote that this was a happy time,
while he watched the larger animals migrate with the seasons and
observed salmon and trout in cold mountain streams. Countless hours of
studying the fish in motion gave him insights which later led to one of his
inventions, called the trout turbine. Picture him at rest on a summer afternoon,
his long frame stretched on a grassy riverbank. Sunlight filters
through a canopy of leafy branches overhanging the river. Deep in this
pristine mountain setting, the combination of his sharply observant eyes
and his intuition was synthesizing new knowledge.