
beauty? nature is always beautiful, always new, creative and way
stronger than we can imagine. for someone who’s able to sense nature
- its beauty has more or less universal validity. landscapes in
west-tibet for example - these successions of pastel-shaded mountain
ranges - are matchless in their harmony. of course also the ‘arts’ create
something that we call beauty. this means we have the ability to
transform nature into ‘culture’.
as i do respect nature for its variety and creativity, i also respect the
human being, who gained experiences throughout thousands of
years. birds are able to fly since a long time - humans just since fifty
years. but we learned to fly and probably in another fifty or one hundred
years - we will be able to fly without causing massive pollution
to the atmosphere. these are our tasks, and our scientists draw their
perceptions and insights from observations of nature, instead of extracting
them exclusively from abstract calculations.
while the sensory of our mind is limited, i would definitely ascribe
a divine dimension to nature. caused by our sensoric limitations we
should beware of attempting to project form or expression to what
is not accessible for us - what others imagine as god, the divine, the
other side or the beyond. in the genetic structure we might have discovered
the basic functions of a human being. we figured out - more
or less - how gravity, the stars and the universe ‘work’ - but we’re just
reaching out for the first horizon. beyond that an infinite number of
‘horizons’ stretches out into whatever, and this ‘beyond’, which is not
accessible for us - that’s what i respect as divine dimension. although
we humans are deficient beings - we are a part of nature. our equipment
is comparably not ingenious. we aren’t especially fast. we react
slower than most animals. we only have our mind to develop technologies
and implement them in our daily life to somehow cope with
this world.
my life is based on searching for challenges and translating them into
action. whenever i expose myself on the edge of my possibilities - in
awareness of the deficiencies of human nature - i can come to learn
and experience a bit more.