As a good memory that remains today published the words of Luis Paredes, president of Saval on the 50th anniversary of the institution on December 1, 2006.
Dear Friends
many years ago in a faraway place, a primitive being looked toward the starry night wondering vaguely by those lights shining at the top ... In that time mankind was born and the descendants of the primitive being would be called to conquer deep space, a transcendental adventure has just begun. Astronomy implicitly has this sense of transcendence, the birth, evolution and death of stars tell us about our own history, as woven in the depths of the heavens our anguish and our hope ... "We were desperate Atoms" - says our poet Gonzalo Rojas - atoms that speak of his travels in space, planetary stay.
We this is taken from a hand with the other past and future. Stars and planets awaken in us atoms dreamers of their birth, their own evolution, seeking their ultimate fate in the depths of the universe.
response to questions of why this effort, of why ancient cultures went beyond their own horizons, of why we went into space and so many others perhaps the answer to these concerns have given the Ray Bradbury who had once told the journalist Oriana Fallaci notable recently died: "We will leave Earth for the same reason that we feel compelled to take children into the world. Because we are afraid of death, darkness and we see the repeated image and immortal. We do not want to die, but death exists and, as there, parimos children, who bring forth other sons, to infinity and this gives us eternity. Do not forget: Earth could die in explosion, the sun may go out, turn off. And if the Sun dies, if the Earth dies, if our race dies with the Earth and the Sun, then all we've done so far, it dies. And Homer dies and dies Michelangelo, Galileo and die, and Leonardo, Shakespeare and Einstein. Die all not really be dead because we have inside, the thought. Salvémoslos. Ready to escape, to continue our life on other planets, to rebuild our cities into other worlds: land will not be for long! And if you really afraid of the dark, then, for the good of all, let us take our rockets, accustom to the intense cold, intense heat, there is no water, oxygen does not exist elsewhere, us become Martians on Mars in Venusian Venus, go to other solar systems, to Alpha Centauri, anywhere to forget where we achieve and Earth. Forget our Solar System, forget our body the way it was, these arms, these legs, these eyes, Let us become what it is ... Only matter what, either way, follow the life and life will go on the conscience of Homer Miguel Angel, the awareness of Galileo, Leonardo, Shakespeare. And the gift of life will forever ... "
Saval turned 50 on Friday, October 6 ... I thought then, as I think now, the dreams of those who founded it. We represent all those who preceded us. We are the port of arrival of a river of those. We are your eyes. In us they have the option to feel what they were not able to live. By we, here we are, they again have a chance to take the floor. Thus, each of our actions is something sacred. Each time we something we rebuild the world. We, as a species, survivors dating back thousands and thousands of years. Of all the almost infinite chain of beings that make us talk and feel. Every living being is the Resurrection of the Dead. This is a long and dreamy passion that involves the whole entire cosmos. Every look to heaven is a poem without words, and these poems are not only very small human interpreters of dreams. For the poets they have had to interpret those dreams from fragments. The minimum life is the theater of passion, of dreams and beauty. When two people love each other and embrace, turn to embrace the stars.
When coupled two words is as a craft, you may be putting together new words, you may be reflecting the consistency of Heaven and Earth. Poetry is the evidence of man's dreams.
And so we come to these 50 years, and will soon be 100 where many of us will not be here, but as the founders of Saval today speak through us, we will speak through those who are when Saval's 100th birthday and so on ...
There is a Chinese saying that "if you plan ahead for a year, to plant rice, if the plans are for ten years then it should planting trees and if the plans are for a hundred years, then they should teach people. "
What are 50 years under the starry sky? Perhaps a lifetime, perhaps only a second. Let us then observe the starry nights and also celebrate the birthday of our atoms extracted from the starry night ...
Dear friends ... then happy to walk the 100-year-Saval ...
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