Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris 

Ron Reiserer wow! Love it! Keep up the good work

share it as much as possible then, even if you only inspire one person, that one may be someone important who goes on to create the next greatest invention for humanity !

Sarah Amaya Well, I'd like to hope that that one is me. :)

what message? lets play on empty urban lots??? yeah right, thats gonna save us and nature

Couldn't agree more.

thank you for this reflection. i remember having a similar experience as a child, but now things have changed. my mom makes dandelion tea from the "weeds" she collects in her yard ❤🤗

the imagery formed in my mind from your words looked like something from hayao miyazaki

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Naruto is in your backyard...just don't mow your lawn

Also, your data is in error, the Indigenous people were here for much longer and lived harmoniously.

Because we did.

***** Actually, yes. I am.

TheAnnoyingGunner Until now. Up to about 200 years ago, when technology started evolving.

***** You mean the time shortly after the scientific revolution, that enabled us to use the scientific method? So that your clothes get washed more than just once a month and don't require you to work for days, thanks to electricity and the chemistry of washing agents. So that people like your potential husband don't have to die anymore at mining, being crushed or suffocated, thanks to machinery and gas monitoring. So that a scratch isn't a potential death sentence anymore, so you don't experience how your spine breaks under the spasmic cramping of a tetanus infection as there weren't any antibiotics or vaccinations. So your kids have pretty much a 100% chance of experiencing their 18th birthday instead just a 40% chance. Now that you don't have to live in constant fear of a bad harvest which would mean that up to a third of your country's population starves, as we understand plants on a molecular level and now have the technology to produce artificial fertilizers? I see, we really screwed everything up. Those merry days.

TheAnnoyingGunner Yes, with the scientific revolution, we screwed everything up for our environment. I agree with you in saying things weren't screwed up for *us*, but they definitely were, and still are, for the earth.

I agree. I think her definition of nature is a bit off.

Finally everything is nature :)

We can all decide on the definition of nature. There isn't so much value in saying that she is wrong. Not as much value as adding or modifying her definition to fit a better definition that we collectively agree upon.

Stephen Warner Right. That's what I did.

Are you stupid?

+Isaac Swanagan wow what a condescending comment, why not make a point or argument instead of blatantly insulting someone because of their opinion (which I agree with).

Isaac Swanagan And I was talking about the book she was using as an example, maybie next time before opening your dirty mouth you should make sure to understand what you're getting into by actually understanding what you're responding to yes ?

It's called a book

Books are great, but which one is like that? I might buy it?

@@jordankloosterman2966 ~ not sure where you live, but Lone Pine puts out some cool field guides for plants (including some edible and medicinal). Or any local bookstore probably has field guides of all sorts for your area for plants, animals, birds, fungi… Field guides are sooo cool.

@@jordankloosterman2966 ~ some bookstores might also have small booklets or charts of local animal tracks ~ learning to spot creatures by what they leave behind is like sleuthing…

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The question is: what is wrong with you?

Watch 15:20 then talk.

I see no problem.

What are you trying to imply?

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actually she talked fairly well

why don't you try to get on yourself?

Would you care to explain your problem with her content? Or are you going to assume that you're right?

The milk comes from the supermarket.

Sadly yes. Far to often kids are only taught that nature is only what humans have "not touched" or designated parks. Everything else is just farms or weeds.. Its a horrible mindset and I never expected TED to host a a talk about this subject.

Robert Rockey I'm from a small place. This is news to me. I used to like the idea of futuristic films turning out to be close to reality after a couple of decades. By that I meant gadgets becoming available, like the back to the future hoverboards... Instead what we got is kids thinking there are pizza trees growing in the wild, like in wall-e; and kids getting hit by cars or being mugged because a game told them do go play outside. I used to think I'm never going to become one of those grumpy old men, that you often catch mumbling about how much better it was back in the old days. I stand corrected. 'Tis but a matter of time.

That's the inevitable result of specialisation and urbanisation. It has it's benefits and downsides. Those kids don't neccessarily have to know where the milk comes form, as long as they fulfil their place in society. Tell me how many people in your circle of acquaintances knows how a sewer works. It's one of the things that isn't simply born into the world in a mostly functional state, unlike cows.

TheAnnoyingGunner I live in a decent sized town now, but there's parks all over the place. I do believe everybody I know has a clue or two about basic stuff like how do sewage systems work as well as what do you need to remember whilst in the woods. I didn't ask, I chose to believe they do.

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thats why you should watch a video before you comment

Are fucking kidding? Listen to what she has to say. It was a poignant and well articulated argument.

The point of her video was to literally help people living in big cities, which of there are millions.

indeed

Nobody cares

i care

+kor9 exactly. well done

"Animal: A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure." So do you photosynthesize? Can you not move (you seem to have typed..)? Do you have unlimited (normal) cell growth (makes typing hard - perhaps this is one of your few messages?)? Perhaps you don't respond to stimuli (nope, you read the bible)? Perhaps you differ from the bible given template of 2 arms and 2 legs? If no: then you are an animal. Weather or not you are one of the 'wild animals' afore mentioned is another story, but nobody claimed you were afaik.

Absolute fantasy denial nonsense. You are an animal. An ape. Too fucking bad.

You have your head in the sand.

Just take biology classes and then come back to this thread.

I'd like some serious criticisms and not to pull this card, but maybe the Woman who has made this her life work has a better idea about some of this stuff than the guy who's making an internet comment. What did she get wrong?

Six years later and you still haven't come up with an argument to defend your point of view.