"Feeling is never invisible, it has a shape and manifests itself as a form everywhere in nature. We can therefore look at nature as a developed feeling, as a living reality in front of us and among us." Andreas Weber Andreas Weber asks himself a radical and challenging question: It is not possible that our planet is not suffering primarily from a financial or even ecological crisis, but...
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Hiking to the sources of the Elbe and the Polish part of the Giant Mountains
"If we imagine the artist in his feelings that moved him as a man from the plains and the coast, as he approached the mountains, we will understand how the increasing movement of the earth must have taken hold of him." Günther Grundmann about CD Friedrich on his journey to the Giant Mountains In the first half of July 1810, two German painters, friends Caspar David Friedrich and Georg Friedrich Kersting, undertook...
Praise the Back Country
Eva Bakkeslett, Hana Bernardová, Luděk Čertík, Tomáš Daněk, Tomáš Gardelka, Šimon Grimmich, Tomáš Hrůza, Milada Chalupová, Pavel Janšta, Barbora Kinkalová, Helena Kosková, Alena Malíková, Malvína Nálevková, Martin Nawrath, David Nicol, Andrea Průchová Hrůzová, Luboš Slovák, Václav Sojka, Zuzana Vařilová, Lea Willer and Jiří Zemánek (more information) Go to the seminar program ↓ About the Back Country /…
Caspar David Friedrich and the landscape near Teplice: hiking to the twin mountains of Milešovka and Kletečná
“The landscape around Teplice is beautiful … and uplifting to the heart.” Caspar David Friedrich (in a letter to his friend, 1835) This year we will celebrate the arrival of spring and love on a May pilgrimage, which we will set out on from Teplice in northern Bohemia. We will commemorate the creative legacy of the leading figure of European Romantic painting, the German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), whose work is significantly connected…
Wandering through the Ore Mountains
This journey across the Ore Mountains is part of the sixth seminar of our Itinerant University of Nature "Becoming Native or the Search for Home" (Nové Hamry 2.-8.6. 2021). I was inspired to create its route by the design of the first ever transitional hiking trail through the Ore Mountains ("Krušnohorský kwérunk"), created by the wanderer Markéta Dobešová. The path offers an opportunity to get acquainted with the unique nature of the Ore Mountains, but also with the eventful history of the Czech…
Program: Becoming Native or Finding Home
“We must cherish this planet and the secrets of its deep workings. In the future, the greatest human discovery will be the discovery of our intimate relationship with all the other modes of being that live with us on this planet… Only intimacy can save us from our current imprisonment in a predatory industrial economy.” Thomas Berry / The Great Work This year’s Wandering University seminar…
Becoming Native or Finding Home
“We must cherish this planet and the secrets of its deep workings. In the future, the greatest human discovery will be the discovery of our intimate relationship with all the other modes of being that live with us on this planet… Only intimacy can save us from our current imprisonment in a predatory industrial economy.” Thomas Berry / The Great Work This year’s Wandering University seminar…
May Máchov hiking tour through the Central Bohemian Mountains and the Děčín Highlands
“Days of beauty, so early / are you entering the region? Will you give me clear / sun, hill, grove?” Johann Wolfgang Goethe This year too, we will celebrate the arrival of the spring time of love on the May Máchov pilgrimage, which we will set out on as we did last year from Litoměřice. It will take us to the eastern part of the Bohemian Central Highlands north of Litoměřice and to the Děčín Highlands. This time we will go through the Bílé…
Photo gallery: Everything around me lives, feels, like me...
Program: Everything around me lives, feels, like me…
Luděk Čertík, Martin Nawrath, Pavel Janšta and Hiromi Ogata, Tomáš Daněk, Jaromír Bláha, Tomáš Hrůza and Andrea Průchová Hrůzová, Barbora Kinkalová, Jana Kožnarová, Tomáš Gardelka, Alena Malíková, Hana Bernardová, Lenka Kubelová, Michal Kristýnek, Zdeňka Morávková-Řezbová, Stephan Martin, Freya Mathews, Lara Mallien and Johannes Heimrath and Jiří Zemánek. “We have no independence, no integrity of our own as a species separate from other species…