Plant studies, part 1, G. Bergmanis

This is not a meditation on Nature. The basic idea of ​​the message is friendly and equal relations with all living things. The book invites you to communicate with plants, to study them. This study of nature does not seek and highlight the different, but strives for closeness, harmony, familiarity. At a time when man is so alienated from Nature, this will be good for everyone.

There is already a call among American researchers to revise the science ( David Ray Griffin ). These plant studies are a promising contribution in this sense.

In the 1st book of the four-book series, PLANT STUDIES, Gottfrīds Bergmanis observes the manifestations of nature and various plants in four seasons over the course of one year. The author carefully notices and depicts the changes and gestures of plants in the spring, when the sun gradually warms the ground cover, in the summer steam and in the fullness of plant life, in the richness of autumn colors and during the ripening of fruits, in the frost of winter and in the period of peace of living Nature. The portrayal is so lively and true that it involuntarily makes you think about the course of a person's life and tasks at different stages of life.

The book will provide valuable information to the curious and true joy to lovers of word poetry, while the author's drawings of plants and nature in various techniques are an aesthetic pleasure to fine art connoisseurs.

Gottfried Bergmann is the fourth child in a family of six children, born in 1935 in Oberville in Simmental (Switzerland). After finishing the 9th grade, he studied at the seminary and at the age of 20 he was already standing in front of the class as a teacher. He led classes in classes for children in 9 different age groups. Later, Gottfrīds Bergmanis focused on healing and led classes for people with mental and spiritual development disorders. At the age of 60, he handed over this job to a younger person.

In all eras of human history, there have been both real-minded scientists and fantasists who have studied natural phenomena on our Earth in relation to the cosmos. And often their assumptions have been confirmed as science has progressed. The author of this book, Gottfrīds Bergmanis, does not claim the name of a scientist, but tells about his long-term studies of plant life and the long-expressed knowledge of scientists about surprising similarities between the orbits of the planets of the solar system and the rhythms and periodicity of plant life, as well as the forms, symmetry and internal geometry of plants, namely , the similarity between the macrocosm and the microcosm. The author is a wise observer of natural processes and a thinker who passionately talks about his observations and hypotheses, agreeing with the views of the medieval physician and philosopher Paracelsus (1493 – 1541) on the close connection between the material and the spiritual, between the Earth and the sky. The book broadens our horizons, makes us observe and notice, judge and compare, experience the excitement of the seeker and the new discoverer.
Agronome and PLANT STUDIES 4th book translator Ilze Žola