Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) came from a long line of forest custodians. An Austrian naturalist, philosopher and inventor, his extraordinary understanding of the workings of nature derived from his keen powers of observation in the forest where he worked.

Callum Coats is the author of Living Energies, the standard work of reference on Viktor Schauberger's ideas and studied with Schauberger’s son, Walter, in Austria.