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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749 ☥1832], German polymath who gifted us his philosophy of nature based on the principles of symbiogenesis and a holistic view of life. In his ‘Metamorphosis of Plants,’ Goethe described how he saw all parts of a plant as expressions of the same essence.

'Raoul' Rudolf Heinrich Francé [1820 ☥ 1943], Austro-Hungarian science-Wunderkind, microbiologist, soil scientist, natural philosopher, poet writer of 60 + books, discoverer of the edaphon (microorganisms in fertile soil, equivalent to the plankton in the ocean), in 1920 he wrote a book with the title 'Die Pflanze als Erfinder' (The Plant as Inventor).

Rudolf Steiner (1861 ☥ 1925) — Austrian philosopher and visionary, founder of the anthroposophical movement and biodynamic agriculture; author of Agriculture Course: The Birth of the Biodynamic Method. Steiner saw plants as essentially the same as the earth — they grow out of the soil, are nurtured by it and feed back into it. "Both Goethe and Steiner were holistic scientists. They understood and examined phenomena from the perspective of wholeness rather than by splitting them into the tiniest possible parts, hoping to reveal some hidden secret that ‘made things tick’."

Albert Howard (1873 ☥ 1947) — English botanist and founder of the organic movement, inventor of the Indore Method of Organic Composting, author of An Agricultural Testament.

'Rainer' René Maria Rilke (1875 ☥ 1926) – Bohemian poet, nomad, writer of many letters, notes, poems, sonnets, author of

"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."

"Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you?"

"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens."

Maye Bruce (1879 ☥ 1964) — Irish gardener, student of Rudolf Steiner’s biodynamic method, inventor or the Quick Return Compost Activator, founding member of the British Soil Association, author of From Vegetable Waste to Fertile Soil and Common Sense Compost Making.

Viktor Schauberger [1885 ☥ 1958] – Austrian forester, naturalist, and inventor who developed a profound understanding of nature. He attracted attention especially due to his revolutionary discoveries about the nature, qualities and movement of living water in the mountain streams of his native forests.

Evelyn Barbara Balfour (1898 ☥ 1990) — English farmer and organic farming pioneer, founder of the British Soil Association, author of The Living Soil.

'Jean' Hans Karl Rudolf Gebser [1905 ☥1973] – German linguist, cultural philosopher and poet who envisioned a complete evolutionary history of consciousness, from the archaic structure of the 'everpresent origin' to the diaphanous structure of a future, towards which we are meant to evolve.


Rachel Carson [1907 ☥ 1964] – American marine biologist, "one of the 20th century's most influential voices in literature and environmentalism", author of Silent Spring.

Aaron Antonovsky [1923 ☥1994] – Israeli-American medical sociologist who developed his model of Salutogenesis in response to observing the resilience of some holocaust survivors and their growth after severe trauma.

Eugene Gendlin [1926 ☥ 2017] – Austrian-American philosopher. Gendlin's philosophical work is mainly concerned with the lived experience, the bodily felt sense and the 'philosophy of the implicit'. He applied his theories in practice in collaboration with psychologist Carl Rogers. Known mainly for Focusing and Thinking at the Edge, methods used in psychotherapy and personal development https://focusing.org/felt-sense/what-focusing