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Louie Schwartzberg

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  1. “You know, the older we get doesn't seem like life accelerates and gets faster and faster. It does, it does. And then people say, like, right before they die, they see their life pass before them. So perhaps at the moment that you die, it all accelerates so fast, puts you into a time warp where you just go into another portal of time and space.”

    2018-10-01 · Oprah's Super Soul · Louie Schwartzberg: Nature Is Our Greatest Spiritual Teacher · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And that's why I built this library of magic moments that I've accumulated over the years and somehow I pieced it together into a story like the story you want to tell about the world. I don't know at the moment why I'm capturing that particular moment. But I know it's part of a greater story, and that story is to share how we're all connected and how beauty does motivate and open our hearts.”

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  3. “They want to just the best for their kids Shelter, food, love. Happiness, but we all do it differently, which is beautiful. The diversity of cultures around the world is extraordinary, but it all comes down to the same basic needs.”

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  4. “Yeah, and it doesn't have a brain, but it's conscious and intelligent. And just because we don't understand the language of nature doesn't mean it's not intelligent. It's just our inadequacy to be able to communicate with nature.”

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  5. “Yeah, mushrooms are the fruit and mycellium is the root structure. They found a patch in Oregon that's 2500 acres. Mushrooms are the giant internet of nature. They're everywhere under the ground, transmitting nutrients and information for life to prosper.”

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  6. “Yes, because mushrooms create soil. Without soil, no plants. Without plants, no people. It's the largest organism on the planet. It's got a fiber network under the ground that communicates.”

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  7. “And I'm trying to connect to people's hearts. Because if you give people a to-do list, oh, you should recycle or do this or do that, they're not going to do it. But if you fall in love with something, it hurts to throw away piece of paper when you love a forest. We're hardwired to protect what we love. And I want people to fall in love with nature in order to protect it.”

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  8. “Plan, we do need a plan, and we need to change our behavior, and I'm an optimist, and I believe that nature will hopefully guide us in the right direction.”

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  9. “I hope not. We have all the answers to fix the environment. What we're missing is a change in behavior. And that requires a shift”

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  10. “I think by being a messenger for nature. And basically, I think what I'm hearing the planet saying to me in nature is that they need to live in harmony with the planet because we are kind of off in the wrong direction. We're herding the ecosystem that gives us life. And I think they're just saying, hey, let's get our, you got to get your act together.”

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  11. “I think if you take photos of what you connect and recognize as the deepest part of your soul, What's great is we have these phones and we can capture that at any moment. So basically it almost became like breadcrumbs on a trail. Because what's beautiful is to look back and ask yourself, can I feel that same emotion that I felt at the time I took that photo? Because guess what? You've changed since you took that photo. Could have been a day ago, could have been a year ago, and you can measure how you've grown and how you've evolved over time.”

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  12. “And I think it does kind of becomes more concentrated energy. And I think as artists, that's our job, is to help people see things that perhaps we don't see on the surface”

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  13. “It Because I'm able to kind of compose and shape what I want people to see with the tools of cinematography, whether it's focus and composition and lighting, things that nature taught me.”

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  14. “It is a visual meditation. I think it's actually visual healing. You don't have to think about it intellectually. You just have to think let go and feel it emotionally.”

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  15. “I think it slows you down to appreciate the moment by connecting with what is the deepest part of your soul. And when you do that, then you appreciate the little things in life. And I think that cultivates gratitude, it cultivates compassion. It connects you with the outside world. I mean, if you look at it from a scientific point of view for a moment, right, light energy going into your eyes, activating the retinas, sending electrical impulses to the brain to create an image. And that sends electrical impulses to your heart. And that's when you feel compassion and the connection to the outside world. Because we sort of do live in our heads. True? But when you feel an emotional connection to the outside world, then again, you will do whatever it takes to protect it because we're hardwired to protect what we fall in love with.”

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  16. “because it motivates you to make the right choices by seducing you with The scientists call it manipulation. But basically it's about DNA moving forward. It's about the creative evolutionary process moving forward because beauty is the dance of life that every creature is doing. And so it isn't just pure seduction. It's about life moving forward. That's critical.”

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  17. “So, I want that heart opener. I'm basically like in a sense like yourself a messenger. I'm just communicating that energy. To open up people's hearts and nature is an important message because what it's saying to me is that we need to live in harmony with the planet and we need to protect it and save it. And one of the ways is through beauty.”

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  18. “Oh my God. And I thought about what that means. I think the O means it makes you present The My means it's connecting deep inside your soul, letting your inner voice come out. And God is that universal energy we all want to be connected to. It's a common reaction every time. The jaw drops. It's like,”

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  19. “There's so much. I think recently I've been shooting slow motion shots of things like hummingbirds and bees, bats, and butterflies.”

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  20. “I think you have to slow down. You can do it in your backyard. You could do it in the park. But if you go into like, you know, nature's wonders, a place like a national park, for example, you're in a temple that will open your heart instantly because what you're doing, it's looking into a mirror. Every cell in your body is rejoicing at the fact that you're looking at energy that is a reflection of physically who you are and spiritually who you are.”

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  21. “But do you know what's cool when I finally experienced nature when I was in college in a day or two you automatically connect. So even though I didn't have it in my upbringing, your heart connects because you're back home. You know, you don't need a lot of education to really get the idea to connect. But I think so many people”

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  22. “Well, my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never really experienced nature. And I think the only thing I ever did in Brooklyn was like I raised popsicle sticks down the gutter. When I went to UCLA Yeah, that was my closest nature experience.”

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  23. “Seeing the world. My brain is always thinking where it's a perfect place to be to capture that magic moment. And it's like catching a wave. It's not just shooting the sun.”

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  24. “Never because these are magic moments that I want to capture. And then if I'm in Maui and you see a beautiful sunset, it's not good enough for me just to enjoy that. I hate to say it. I'm a bit of a workaholic and compulsive. I want to share it with the world. That's my mission.”

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  25. “Yes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nonstop because I end up only shooting like two seconds per 24 hours per day. So I've squeezed 35 years into 12 hours of material because it takes time to do it. I kind of call it compressed energy. And I do it purely because of the beauty. But then when I learned about the bees disappearing, I said, well, there's a bigger story here because it's really about survival. This is a love story that feeds the earth.”

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  26. “It's alive, well, most people they walk by flowers, they don't think of them as moving. but through time lapse we see that they're actually in motion they're dancing they're doing the dance of life”

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  27. “Time lapse of these shots could take like a month to get the vines going up a tree and for the flower to open up a passion flower and they're saying I'm alive. I need to get pollinated. You know, I need to be in that cycle of life.”

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  28. “Well, it takes you into the world that is a portal into nature wisdom, nature's intelligence. We didn't know that plants can move and crawl and creep to the light. It just opens up your consciousness to the fact that there are other worlds, just like your dreams are another world. But this is real.”

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  29. “It came out of necessity when I graduated from UCLA and I always wanted to shoot in 35mm film, but I couldn't afford it. So when you shoot time-lapse, you're shooting like one frame every 20 minutes. So it would take me like a month. Shoot a four minute roll of film, which I could afford. But it opened my heart because it's a transformational experience to see a flower open and close. What you're seeing is like life to death. And that opens your mind and your heart and the spiritual way to the transformative relationship of life on our planet.”

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  30. “Well, we create a little mini set so that I could get in there with a macro lens. And we get to experience their world. You know, like a redwood tree looks at us like we're scurrying ants, but then a mosquito looks at us like we're a big giant moving in slow motion. But I think it's wonderful to share with people through the magic of cinematography is that there are other worlds and we get to experience that world. And what that does, I think, it opens your heart. It makes you realize we have blinders on. We can't just live in our own little reality. There are many realities, and guess what? They're real. And I can show that to people.”

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  31. “Exactly. It's the web of life. And so not only is it an important environmental story, it became a spiritual story because basically the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet. So it's a keystone event, but it's also a spiritual and mystical event.”

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  32. “Well, when I heard about the fact that the bees were disappearing, which is perhaps the most serious environmental threat to mankind because a third of the food we eat comes from a pollinating plant So I learned that bees, bats, butterflies, hummingbirds, that relationship with flowers provides the food we need. And the reason why I wanted to tell that story”

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  33. “It is God Because it is life personified And to be able to capture it in the way I do it with time lapse and slow motion, I'm able to kind of unveil the mystery of nature.”

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  34. “It was part of a TED talk I did about nature and beauty. And when they posted it, it kind of hung there for a while and then boom it went viral. And I really had no idea it would do that, but I think it resonated with people. I think there was a hunger out there where people want to connect to something that's bigger than themselves. And I think through the portal of nature, it can open your heart and you can develop gratitude for the little things in life. It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day”

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