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Natural Monuments

Lower Franconia

Herman de Vries Golden Words – Natura Numquam Errat Sandstone Block

Natural Monuments

Lower Franconia

Herman de Vries Golden Words – Natura Numquam Errat Sandstone Block

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Herman de Vries Golden Words – Natura Numquam Errat Sandstone Block

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Naturpark Steigerwald

Location: Knetzgau, Haßberge, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Niklas 🥾🚲🛶🛼😀

May 9, 2022

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The artist Herman de Vries, whose signs and quotations about the nature of nature can be found in several places in the Steigerwald, says: "Nature doesn't need people, people need nature." The artist wrote this on a large block of sandstone, documented with the golden inscription "natura numquat errat" ("nature is never wrong"). The artist, who is now known worldwide, moved to Eschenau in the Steigerwald as a Dutch artist in the 1960s and has since then focused on nature.

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

February 18, 2023

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Thanks for the great description @Niklas.

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February 23, 2023

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The artist and philosopher herman de vries left “traces in the northern steigerwald”: golden words. So called because he carved succinct thoughts in stone and covered the letters with gold …

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