What
is Botanica ? For the public
authority which accused us of criminal
activities, we are not a terrorist
organisation. For the local newspaper
which thought we were lunatics with
leaves growing under our armpits, we are not
a religious sect. Botanica is an
association, that is to say a formal
organisation of people who share a common
purpose, which ardently follows its sole
goal : promote nature. The association,
founded by green-handed students of Why Botanica
? Because Botanica has the firm
conviction that the value-crisis of
Western civilisation is due to the
growing discrepancy between the natural
and the cultural realms. Because Botanica
believes that if we carry on at this pace
doomsday will not be a mere
ecliptic-marketing tag. Our end is near,
ladies and gentlemen, if we continue
ostrasizing nature. As long as we
antagonize our green valleys, our blue
skies and our bright-yellow dandelions in
a perverted master/slave dialectic, we
will continue to cough, gasp and quease.
Instead of perceiving the destruction of
nature as the price to pay for Man's
survival, Botanica believes that
Man's extinction will be the price to pay
for nature's obliteration. Botanica is
not a reminescence of 1960's
phantasmagoria. Our aim is not to beckon
a "halt to growth" like the
Club of Rome. We are not
hard-core-thick-headed-domineering-hyper-active
extremists like Greenpeace. Botanica
will act as a petitioner, a vector and
most of all, as an organisation of people
with a common purpose, or in other terms,
an association. How ? How will
Botanica achieve its ambitious
goal ? By a persuasive use of convincing
arguments, articles, petitions, sit-ins
and posters. Botanica will unite all of
those who are alive and kicking, striving
and yearning, believing and fighting for
nature's cause. By organizing happenings,
picnics, lectures, conferences,
excursions, trips and debates, Botanica
intends to fulfil its fastidious
enterprise. If you too, feel concerned by
planet Earth's future, then join us ! We
need all the support we can get, so don't
hesitate, before it's to late, to come
and see us in Paris or
Why ?
