Nature Operates Only Indirectly
   
"How else should it be done then?" is always the immediate question.  The answer is simple:  Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!  Very simple observations reveal that Nature's ways are always indirect.  It is through our sheer intransigence that we always find it necessary to adopt the most direct approach.  Therefore we should not complain if as a result we are constantly at odds with almighty Nature. 
   
All we really need to do is adapt ourselves intelligently to Nature's marvellous order:  To understand that it is indeed both foolish and futile to fight against her forces and to realise that if left to itself all would otherwise happen of its own accord.  Moreover the recovery we so fervently desire would then come about quite automatically.  Nature constantly indicates the right paths to take.  Most certainly these new ways will lead in the opposite direction to the one we are wont to take.  This is only to be expected, because it is the present direction that has led to our undoing.  All those who seriously wish to travel this new road should take note of the following explanations.

The Nature Of Water
   
The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water.  In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve.  There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates.  Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance  is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life.
   
Every waterway is an artery of this Life, an artery that creates its own pathways and bridges as it advances, so as to diffuse its dawning life-force through the Earth and elevate itself to great heights, to become shining, beautiful and free.  Standing at the highest level of evolution, and above all being blessed with mind and reason, humanity constantly does the most idiotic thing imaginable by trying to regulate these waterways by means of their banks - by influencing the flow mechanically, instead of taking into account the fact that water is itself a living entity.
   
The assumption behind this absurd practice is that the riverbank shapes the watercourse, whereas the riverbank is actually the secondary effect and water the primary.  To regulate water by means of the riverbank is truly to fight cause with effect.  It should be as inconceivable to a thinking engineer to reinforce the crumbling bank of a watercourse with rammed piles and brush-wood bales, or to smear over cracks with cement, as it would be for a doctor to patch up ruptured capillaries with needle and thread. Astonishingly, though, it still happens!  The condition of all our waterways demonstrates just where these measures have led.
   
In not one single case has the desired object been attained - namely the achievement of a normal channel-profile.  On the contrary, all such river regulation has provoked further damage which far outweighs any local or short-term advantages.  Large rivers such as the Danube, Rhine, Tagliamento, Etsch, Garonne and Mississippi bear witness to the failure of such complicated and costly river regulations.  Quite apart from the tremendous damage caused in the lower reaches by their strictly mechanical regulation, these rivers are stripped of their most valuable assets, their great physical qualities.
   
The present dirty grey, muddy brew known as the Blue Danube, upon whose bed river-gold once gleamed, and the Rhine, the symbol of German identity, where Rhinegold flashed in bygone days, are tragic testimonials to these perverse practices.  The mythical `Gold of the Nibelungs` originated in the golden glow given off by pebbles as they rubbed against each other while rolling along the riverbed at night - for when there is a decrease in water temperature, the tractive force increases, causing the stones to move.  If two pebbles are rubbed together under water, a golden glow appears.  This yellowish-red fiery glow used to be mistaken for the flashing of gold, thought to be lying on the bottom of the river.  Today this `river-gold` lies heaped up in huge mounds of gravel, shifted hither and thither by the force of the sluggish and murky water-masses flowing above them. They no longer imbue the water with energy and soul, as once they did.  Instead they assist in ousting the soul-less body - water - from its badly-regulated course.
   
Our clear, cold mountain streams have become wild torrents.  Full of the vigour of youth, these lively streams used to be surrounded by burgeoning vegetation and consorted with every blade of grass as long as man did not interfere.  Today they can no longer be confined even with metre-thick concrete walls.  Wherever we look we see the dreadful disintegration of the very bridges of Life, the capillaries and the bodies they have created, caused by mindless mechanical human acts.  These actions have robbed the Earths blood - water - of its soul.  It is therefore inevitable that the larger and more expensive these regulatory structures become, the greater will be the ensuing damage.  In the lower reaches of the Danube almost a million hectares of valuable farmland have been lost due to the regulation of the upper reaches.  Similar conditions apply to all other rivers.
   
Even today the river engineer fails to understand the true nature and purpose of water.  The harder he tries to conduct it by the shortest and straightest route to the sea, the more it will tend to form bends, the longer will be its path and the worse its quality.  The flow of water down a natural gradient obeys a sublime, inner Law whose power our hydraulic experts are quite unable to comprehend.  In the absence of this inner conformity with law, all flowing water ought to accelerate faster and faster until it ultimately transfers to a vaporous state.  Science maintains that water is braked by internal and external friction, though it is well known that friction is associated with the generation of heat.  However, it can be shown that the temperature of fast-flowing water decreases, which leads to an increase in tractive force and internal friction.  This simple observation invalidates certain essential propositions in the complex of current hydro-mechanical theories.
   
Where then is the real secret of steadiness in the flow of draining water-masses?   The force that brakes the flow of water down a gradient is a resistance which acts against the force of gravity, a circulation of energy operating in the opposite direction to the current.  This is also true of all metabolic processes and gives water its character and thus its soul.  Contemporary systems of river regulation inhibit this vital function.  The logical outcome of this is the loss of waters inner braking power.  The water becomes soulless, without character and therefore aggressive.

The Cancerous Decay of Organisms
   
The more extensive regulatory works become, destroying waters naturally-ordained inner functions, the greater the ensuing danger to the riverbanks and the surrounding area.  Now characterless, the water breaks its bonds.  Having become unstable, it seeks to regain its soul with one last supreme effort.  The water-masses abandon their proper course and countless water-borne energy-bodies are dropped by the exhausted water.  Disoriented, it now turns on these organisms and robs them of their life-force.  Deprived of their souls, their sources of energy, they begin to rot.  Bacteria develop and the Earths arteries are suffused with cancerous decay.
   
Sinking into the ground, this diseased water now contaminates groundwater. 
As it rises through the capillaries of the soil and vegetation, this very Blood of the Earth carries the embryo of this fearful disease with it up into the widest variety of plants.  This leads to the qualitative degeneration of vegetation, principally in the internal decay of forest trees.  As a further consequence, it leads to a regression in the quality of everything in which water circulates.  Ultimately in accordance with a law which operates with awesome constancy, it will slowly but surely come around to our turn.  The spreading of the most terrible of all diseases - cancer - is the inevitable consequence of these unnatural systems of regulation.  It goes without saying that specialists in other fields also have a hand in this work of destruction.

The Forest

Foremost amongst the various professions is modern forestry, which for a century has unsuccessfully attempted to transform the highest plant organism, forest, into a timber factory.  Trees are set out in rows and the preconditions for the natural regeneration and intermixture of species are altered arbitrarily.  Nobody has any idea what happens in the interior of a tree.  Or why, contrary to all the laws of mechanics, water can rise with its various substances to the very top of a tree via its capillaries.  Some talk of osmotic pressure, while others speak of root-stimulation.  All agree, however, that the Sun is the ultimate driving force.  What none of them know is how.
   
This research is carried out with the aid of mechanical equipment. So their attempts to find out are coloured by mistaken thinking and are therefore useless.  In the first place every pump requires a motor.  Secondly, it is not enough merely to tickle the trees' toes.  Thirdly, it is a well-known fact that trees cover themselves with branches, a sure sign that they desire to shield themselves from the Sun and its direct warming influence, for they are only able to benefit from sunlight indirectly.  But what does the forester care?  He simply plants `shade-demanding` trees in the light, and lo, they grow more readily!  Unfortunately even this magic is short-lived.  The structure of such trees becomes looser and more coarsely-knit and ultimately the identical process begins that is now apparent in our increasingly filthy river-systems.
   
Discoloured blotches initially appear in the cross-section of the trunk.  Then the rotting process sets in, spreading from the centre outwards.  In the interior of the tree a multitude of alien life-forms develop - cancer - to which the macroorganism, the tree, gradually falls victim.  Various microbes are now eagerly collected, receive Latin names, and many people are gainfully employed in documenting the innumerable diseases which from year to year and in ever greater number assail the tree's prime asset, its health.  All fail to see that the much sought-after instigator of this alien life-form is the forester and his absurd practices.

Agriculture
   
Hand in hand with the forester works the landowner.  The blood of the Earth constantly deteriorates, the fertility of the soil decreases and happily the need to fertilise is there!  Forward strides the chemist and strews his salts!  Unfortunately this good man neither has any inkling why and how these salts are dissolved, nor what processes enable the development of the energies required for thriving plant growth.
   
Success lasts only a few years, after which the soil very quickly becomes clogged with artificial fertiliser.  Once again Man has worked against Nature, by cheerfully plugging up the last sources of food, the capillaries in the soil.  At a complete loss, the farmer now stands bewildered in his field, which for a short time rewarded him very handsomely with quantity at the increasing expense of the quality of his produce.  As a result he actually harvested less in the long-term, although short-term his harvests were almost unlimited in quantity.  Instinctively seeking vital substances in the Earth, he gets out his deep-cut plough and destroys the soil's capillaries. 
   
The same thing now happens to agriculture as is happening to the forests.  Superficially everything appears to blossom and flourish.  These are but false blossomings, which are nurtured by rotting marrow.  More than ever before they now begin to bear the fruits of decay - cancer.  Cereals lose their starch content, the meadows become overgrown with mosses and the fields with weeds.  All that increases is the labour and the expense.  The end is the loss of soil, house and home.