Back in the year 1920 to 1940. There was
a great discover. A discover of painting.
Of painting in the desert in Peru. And
there was a lady called Mara Reiche.
She lived at this time and she is
somehow connected to these lines but who
is Maria Reiche and what are these lines.
Fly high over the Peruian desert and
you will see giant drawings on the
ground some of them a straight lines
some are spirals or rectangles. And
trapeze in some are animals. Whales
ducks, hummingbirds. We celebrate now more than 100 years birthday of Maria Reiche.
Maria Reiche was a german mathematician
and who well known as the lady of the lines.
The scientists known for studing the so
called Nasca lines.
Maria Reiche was born in Germany and with 13 years it was already clear that she
is very interested in some historical and
nature historical topics and with all
this time she grew up and she never
forgot what's her main interest is, and
what you want to do. Sometimes we all
forget what was our dreams when we were young.
And the daily life and the daily
business life and private life will
distract us so much from our hopes and
our dreams but Maria Reiche. She went
another way. She was so eager to follow
her dreams and going for these natural
historical things that she was able to
accomplish a great achievement with in
the desert, and she found out all the
lines, and she was then, and she was
like a guard watching over the lines. In
her life Reiche was immigrated to Peru 
1932 to be a governess for
children of the chairman consulate there
and soon after she learned of the giant
lion draw in the desert built by the
ancient Nascian people. And she dedicated the
rest of her life to study them. At the
beginning lo lots of
they population of the area laughed
about her. They thought it's a weird lady
with all the stuff she carried with her.
But very quick, when the tourists came to
see all the line, the lady became the
famous doctor
Reiche from Germany. And even with the age of 52 she sit in a helicopter, on the
bottom of the helicopter and took some
pictures of the great lines and she
never gave up and she followed this, till
the end of her life. And this is really
what we should also think of. When you
have a dream, when you were young
don't forget these dreams, follow these
dreams, going for that. It becomes maybe
hard and even Maria didn't know which
doors will open on her way. She just took
the next door that was open and she went
through. And so at the end she is in the
history as the lady of the lines.
Thank you for listening and take a
little bit of peace of Peru and the
lines with me and working on that and
never forget your own dreams. Thank you
for listening
your Peter Gastberger.
