Category Archives: Quotes

MAY 22: LITTLE PIONEER TREE IN ALPS – HIGH TIME TO LISTEN TO ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT!

LITTLE LARCH TREE IN SWISS ALPS - HAVE REVERENCE FOR US, THE TREES!

SLIDE SHOW: «WITH MADELEINE AND ERIC IN SWISS ALPS!»

FOOD FOR THOUGHT BY A GREAT MAN!

«HAVE REVERENCE FOR THE TREE!
IT IS ONE GREAT MIRACLE, AND IT WAS SACRED TO YOUR ANCESTORS.
ENMITY TOWARDS THE TREE IS A SIGN OF THE INFERIORITY OF A PEOPLE
AND OF THE LOW MIND OF THE INDIVIDUAL!»

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859)
German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

SCIENTIFIC PIONEER!

Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.

SCIENTIFIC EXPLORER OF THE AMERICAS!

Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing them for the first time from a modern Western scientific point of view.
His description of the journey was written up and published in several volumes over 21 years.

FIRST TO RECOGNIZE MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE!

He was the first person to describe the phenomenon and cause of human-induced climate change and its consequences on nature and human life!
This already in 1800 and again in 1831, based on observations generated during his travels.

CLEAR WATER CASCADE - Madeleine shows you the treasure of the Swiss Alps!
EXPOSED SUSPENSION BRIDGE - experience vertigo together with Madeleine!
WITH MADELEINE AND ERIC IN HARDROCK LAND!
ACTION PHOTO SHOWS
SWISS ALPS VIDEO CLIPS
©Photos by MADELEINE BIANCHI and ERIC MAURER of SKATETRIX SPORT COMPANY

Tags: Alexander von Humboldt, Climate Change, Eric Maurer, Madeleine Bianchi, Skatetrix Sport Company, Swiss Alps, Tree

APR 11: ICEFALL HEAVEN’S GATE – MADELEINE AND ERIC PRESENT A MASTERPIECE OF NATURE!

MADELEINE BIANCHI and ERIC MAURER in Winter Wonderland - We found there Icefall HEAVEN'S GATE!

SWISS ALPS VIDEO WITH MADELEINE: «CLEAR WATER CASCADE!»

THE MASTERPIECE!

These wonderful ice sculptures are a creation of the unsurpassed master: NATURE!
The result of a synergy of water, gravity, wind, ice-cold air and atmospheric light refraction.

IN WINTER WONDERLAND!

Exactly the conditions that prevail during winter in this deep valley in the Swiss Alps.
This is because the rock walls in which it is nestled are so high that no sunlight reaches the valley floor from November to March!

THE ICEFALL!

This masterpiece of Nature is the lower end of a huge icefall, that MADELEINE and ERIC call HEAVEN’S GATE!

SEE IT FOR FREE!

And best of all! Its sightseeing is free! For Nature demands no admission fee!
Just a little perseverance, some puff as well as some sweat!

WISE WORDS!

«THE MEDIATOR OF THE INEXPRESSIBLE IS THE ART WORK!»
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749 - 1832) - German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theater director, critic and amateur artist.

Tags: Eric Maurer, Heaven's Gate, Icefall, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madeleine Bianchi, Swiss Alps, Winter Wonderland

MAR 27: BLACK PANTHER BAGHEERA – I SHOW YOU THE WAY TO FREEDOM! GO IT OR LEAVE IT!

«They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was BAGHEERA - the PANTHER - and no man's plaything! I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away! And because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than SHERE KAHN, the Tiger!»

Everybody knew BAGHEERA, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as TABAQI, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down!

PHOTO SHOW - «I'M THE BLACK SHADOW IN THE JUNGLE!»

I SET MYSELF FREE!

«They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was BAGHEERA - the PANTHER - and no man's plaything!
I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away!
And because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than SHERE KAHN, the Tiger!»

THE WILL TO FREEDOM!

«MAN IS FREE AT THE INSTANT HE WANTS TO BE!»
VOLTAIRE (1694 – 1778) - French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church.

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM!

«FREEDOM IS THE SURE POSSESSION OF THOSE ALONE WHO HAVE THE COURAGE TO DEFEND IT!»
PERICLES (c. 495 – 429 BC) - Prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars.

WITHOUT SLAVES NO TYRANTS!

«NECESSITY IS THE PLEA FOR EVERY INFRINGEMENT OF HUMAN FREEDOM.
IT IS THE ARGUMENT OF TYRANTS - IT IS THE CREED OF SLAVES!»
WILLIAM PITT the Younger (1759 - 1806) - The youngest Prime Minister of Great Britain!
DOESN'T THAT SOUND KIND OF FAMILIAR TODAY? DOESN'T IT?

THE CREED OF SLAVES: WE ARE FREE!

«NONE ARE MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED THAN THOSE WHO FALSELY BELIEVE THEY ARE FREE!»
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749 - 1832) - German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theater director, critic and amateur artist

DO YOU REALLY WANT FREEDOM?

Are you aware that many of the best of your ancestors sacrificed their belongings, their health, or worse, their lives for freedom?
Would any of you have the courage to fight for that freedom the way they did?
Or do you belong to the majority that prefers a comfortable life in a pseudo-freedom!

LEOPARD - BLACK PANTHER PHOTO SHOWS
WILDLIFE - BIG CAT PHOTO SHOWS
WILDLIFE - BIG CAT VIDEO CLIPS
©Photos by MADELEINE BIANCHI and ERIC MAURER of SKATETRIX SPORT COMPANY

Tags: Bagheera, Black Panther, Eric Maurer, Freedom, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madeleine Bianchi, Pericles, Voltaire, William Pitt

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