“It took the universe almost 14 billion years to develop the hands, bodies, hearts and minds of our unique human form, animated by the same energy and dynamism that gave birth to the Sun, the stars and the universe itself. When we realize this… we realize that in a way we are doing the work of the cosmos itself in shaping the future that is being born at every moment.” Stephan Martin We would like to invite you to…
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The Great Máchov Pilgrimage from Mělník to Ještěd, Oybín, Luž and Klíč
“That horizon of fate that you follow with fervor Brighter every morning Lost every night Just further and further away The evening that drives the night The better day will prepare for us again” — Pierre Reverdy Walker “You are my joy, oh nature, I will honor you forever: let ten thousand candles shine in the marble hall proudly depicted with jewels! Let the gambling halls resound with people,…
Let's start with the forest
“Trees in the forest always form a community. The great system of the forest is maintained and cultivated together and coordinated… Our development should also be directed towards collective, group intelligence. A holistic point of view is more necessary today than ever. Whoever understands and perceives Mother Earth as a complex organism, where everything is connected to everything, will begin to act consistently for the well-being and benefit…
May Máchov's journey through Kokořín: Up to Pecopal
“The darkness of the mountains casts its shadow, there birch leans to pine, pine to birch. Wave after wave rushes down the stream. Every creature boils with love – in the time of love.” — Karel Hynek MÁCHA (May) As part of this year’s small Mácha journey, we will set off to several remarkable parts of the Mácha region that we have not visited yet. On the first day, we will first walk along a familiar path…
The Krkonoše pilgrimage: journey from Prague to Sněžka
“I set out and my eyes, no less, have long since lost sight of the sunny hills. Thus we are seized by what we do not understand, a revelation that rains down from afar – even if we may not reach it, something changes us into what we are, the unknown; it echoes sign after sign … and we perceive only the headwind.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, A Walk “Oh, tell me, poet, what are you doing?…
Hiking through the Bohemian Central Mountains and the Mostec Coal Basin to Horní Jiřetín with participation in Klimakemp
“We are not here to control and dominate the world. We are here to become an integral part of the greater community of the Earth.” Thomas Berry The Central Bohemian Mountains and the adjacent Podkrušnohorská Basin and the Ore Mountains, a unique landscape admired by many great artists (Goethe, Friedrich, Mácha), are one of our most industrially exploited areas; it is here that the most severe interventions have occurred in our country…
The second May Máchov pilgrimage through Kokořín and the Bohemian Central Mountains
Without the flight of birds, without large forests and free-flowing streams, without looking at the clouds by day and the stars by night, we become impoverished in everything that makes us human." Thomas Berry In this year's small Mácha pilgrimage, we will again connect, as last year, two key places of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha's work - the pensive magical landscape of rocky mazes...
The Krkonoše pilgrimage: journey from Prague to Sněžka
“How many winds have blown through the century? Hope always burns, but that smoke! …No, holy fools, don’t waste time with your love of life There is something more than smoke A mustard seed of love A universe without a fence” — Kamil Bednář, Holy Fools We conceive this year’s great Máchov pilgrimage from Prague to Sněžka as a tribute to the poets Kamil Bednář (1912-1972) and Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). Both were sensitive to the upheavals of the 20th century and…
Soil and water as our teachers
“For me, soil is a metaphor for the entire natural system. If we take care of the soil, the soil will take care of us. Through the soil, we are all related and interconnected. We depend on it. All living things depend on the soil.” Satish KUMAR, Indian activist and editor Our current economic system, which seeks to subjugate nature to human control and exploit…
May Máchov's journey through the western Kokořín region and the Bohemian Central Mountains
“Each pilgrim's step has a different meaning, a different impact than the previous one, because the goal to be achieved is perfectly understood and contained in each individual step, as soon as we choose the right path.” Johann Wolfgang GOETHE In this year's small Máchov pilgrimage, we will connect the pensive, shady landscape of the rocky labyrinths of eastern Kokořínsko with the open landscape of lonely rocky peaks of the western part of the Bohemian Central Mountains. To Kokořínsko…