FREE NATURE
Free nature preserves our freedom too.
The further we move away from nature, the less free we become.
We are a critically ill society. The presently still long life expectancy and bloated standard of living, relentlessly devoid of purpose, cannot deceive us that we are fatally ill and kept alive artificially.
Imagine a terminally ill patient in the hospital.
Tubes for blood plasma transfusions in nose and veins, artificial respiration with oxygen, tubes for urine disposal, and anal tubes for the disposal of excrement. This is exactly what is happening to us.
We only have to become aware of the fact that we are locked into a dictatorial, monopolistic distribution system that keeps us in bondage and dependence, in the worst enslavement of mankind since its existence.
We are merely an organism, kept alive artificially by in- and out-going tubes, feed and discharge pipes.
We are connected to
1. Gas lines
2. Television cables and radio
3. District heating pipes and central heating systems
4. Garbage collection systems, because we would otherwise suffocate in our own dirt,
5. Sewage pipes for human debris
6. Water pipes
7. Telephone cables
8. Electrical cables that provide us with additional energy, also to gas stations, etc.
We must have the courage to slowly free ourselves from these tubes, pipes, and cables, from this dependence, from this kind of intensive care.
We must have the courage to lively independently.
Our problem is neither energy shortage nor additional energy demand.
Our problem is the exorbitant energy waste.
Do birds, trees, bugs – does nature have an energy problem?
No, only man thinks he needs more and more energy, because he has become insane and does not know what he does.
We have to recognize for ourselves that we are the most dangerous pest that has destroyed and poisoned the earth. We have to relegate ourselves to the ecological barrier limits, so that the earth can recover.
Man has remained a dumb herd creature, that suddenly has at his disposal insane amounts of energy, poisons, antidotes, and other murderous means, which he implements wildly and indiscriminately in order to destroy the environment and his own brothers. Greedily this man, this dumb herd creature, demands ever more energy, ever more poisons, and ever more means of destruction.
A tree can be cut in five minutes,
But needs 50 years to grow.
That’s the relation between
technocratic destruction
and ecological evolution.
Herewith I declare solemnly that I, Hundertwasser, accept the sponsorship over all trees that are to be illegally steam-rolled in the Hainburger Au by the shovel excavators of the Donaukraftwerkgesellschaft [Donau Energy Corporation].
In case this inconceivable act will take place, this sponsorship will turn into a mourning wreath.
In the rich pasture of Au-meadows there is no place for man and his madness.
Every tree is a sacred tree.
It is our obligation, regardless of whether we are simple citizens, artists, or ministers to stop, with all the means that are at our disposal, this irreparable destruction of free trees that have grown spontaneously out of the vegetation of the Hainburger Au.
May God help us.
Speech at the press conference “Action Tree Sponsorship” in the Federal Ministry for Health, Vienna, with Dr. Steyrer.