Hidden Nature

Fig. 15.1. Cross section through tree trunk. The tight inner rings show normal growth of a shade-demanding tree. The outer rings ...

9.81m (32.18ft). Viktor Schauberger found that it had more to do with a metabolic process: On many occasions I have already stat ...

Fig. 15.3. Viktor designed this surprisingly simple but ingenious experiment that anyone can replicate with simple laboratory eq ...

carbon dioxide, which forms bubbles. These bubbles act like little plugs and, as they rise, push the intervening packets of wate ...

Fig. 15.4. Horizontal section through trunk. This shows how the growth rings act as charge separators or dielectric layers. Temp ...

outside > warmer inside) during the hours of darkness, in its func- tion as depositor or precipitator. With rising air temper ...

Fig. 15.6. The metabolism of the tree. The vital exchange between the yang solar and the yin earth energies for the production o ...

cooling of the sap which, sinking after midday, does not reverse direction until the following day. The oxygen and other gases c ...

Fig. 15.7. Various root systems. In the evolution of plants, first primitive ones (a & b) take root, making use of the low-g ...

having only the finest materials with the highest of nutritive qualities remain, the coarser having been left behind to build up ...

to absorb. They are also responsible for transferring yang energy and nutritive elements derived from the tree crown, to increas ...

humus that is necessary for even higher plant forms. The root sys- tems become more complex, interweaving at different levels, s ...

PART FIVE Working with Nature ...

16. Soil Fertility and Cultivation Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everyt ...

Ploughing methods Viktor Schauberger's interest in soils was initiated during a visit to Bulgaria in the 1930s where he had been ...

The golden plough Wherever we look, the dreadful disintegration of the bridges of life, the capillaries and the bodies they have ...

Fig. 16.1. 15 cm long ears of rye with up to 104 grains/ear. Fig. 16.2. Potatoes grown on Alpine farm at Kitzbuhel, Tyrol. coppe ...

action of the mole. This was called the bio-plough (Fig. 16.3) because it enhanced the energy in the soil. Its action was to rot ...

same. Of course Viktor would not, so the copper ploughs never went into production. Because Viktor's research is not publicized ...

would watch the cows on the fertile high Alpine pastures. The graz- ing animal gathers the grass stems together in a spiralling ...