Lichtasenland Edition 1/2021

Poetry for the hike
In the middle of the water
The oak rose like a hermitage,
Majestic princely seal
To such green forest foliage;
Watching itself at its feet,
Seeing the sky in the flood:
So to enjoy slow life´s beat
Solitude is highest good.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(world literat, Naturalist)
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where Nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to body and soul alike.”
John Muir (Preserver of Yosemite valley, never visited Thuringia)
Strive for tranquillity, but through balance,
not by the standstill of its activity.
– Friedrich von Schiller
Those who contemplate nature are captivated
by the mystery of life.
– Albert Schweitzer
(Theologian, doctor, writer, pacifist)
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