THE BOTANIC BOOKA fairy-tale of Nature

A fairy-tale of Nature.

... how the fairy-tale will effortlessly manage

to take you into its World ...

Listen...

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... it will lead us there, where the story it wishes to tell begins:

once around the World, where the earth, the sun and the rain

have – for millions of years, second by second – created the

wonder that is a tree and thereby the forest!

For us the fairy-tale stops time. Before our very eyes, it makes

trees grow and fl ower, it makes the seasons change, from the

fi rst seed to the mighty trunk - all in a single moment.

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Quite naturally...

... the fairy-tale whispers, “just come a little closer!” and with

the magic of its words it leads you into the midst of a veritable

wonder that has become reality: Where sunbeams

softly caress the leaves after a near endless journey. In this

transformation – similar to the harmony of two people whose

love creates new life – the power of the sun and the

power of the Earth unite, thereby bestowing on the leaf the

wondrous ability to give the World the breath it needs for life.

„Come“,...

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... the fairy-tale would not be the fairy-tale if it would not also

tell you of those invisible elements in every tree which make us

love them for evermore: the fairy! Tiny and delicate, the fairy is

adorned in a dress, fi nely-spun from the morning dew, from

the glitter of the stars and the rays of the sun.

A dress that breathes and drinks, that collects and radiates

warmth, and is bestowed with magical powers. How could it

be otherwise, after all it is tailored by Nature itself ...

However...

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... through evil magic the dress, and with it all the power it

possessed, is taken away and lost forever. This invisible

element of the tree is now thrown into the other World.

A World that is coarse and artifi cial. All of the fi ne strings,

which connected Nature with people, are now broken.

Then one day...

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... whispers the leaf on which the weeping fairy rests.

“The sunbeams have already started to perform their miracle.

Together with me, they will conjure up a new dress for you -

it will be just as tiny, so very delicate and spun just as fi nely!

It will be made, as before, by Nature’s tender hand.”

And so it comes to pass: just a little magic sign later and the

sun, the earth and the fairy-tale are already starting a new

transformation – so pure, so natural, so clear.

„Do not be sad“,...

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... a blink of an eye later, the fairy is really clad in a fabric that

seems like a wonder come true: a fabric that breathes as if it

were alive, that invites the morning dew to dwell, and a

fabric that radiates the warmth sent by the sun.

Only...

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... this moment on the fairy is visible and perceptible in every

pore, in every fi bre of this very special material which preserves

and protects Nature keeping it in a state worth living in for the

whole of creation.

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From...

... of this new dress”, the fairy-tale smiles while swinging in

a cup of fl owers, “the fairy has returned in this amazing,

incredibly wonderful cycle of life …

„With the help...

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Copyright by ENEM GmbH., 2008

Publisher: Lenzing AG

Text: Folke Tegetthoff

Illustrations: Mojca Sekulic Fo

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