Name: 【TEDx】Gratitude: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDxSF
Uploaded: 2014-10-11T22:46:33.000Z
Duration: 9 min 56 s
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Hi everybody. Feel like I'm in a revival.

To-infinitive

It's great to be back in my old stomping grounds of San Francisco.

When I graduated UCLA, I moved to Northern California

and I lived in a little town called Elk on the Mendocino coast.

And I didn't have a phone or TV, but I had US mail.

And life was good back then if you could remember it.

I'd go to the general store for a cup of coffee and a brownie.

And I'd ship my film to San Francisco, and low and behold,

two days later it would end up on my front door,

which was way better than having to fight the traffic of Hollywood.

So I started shooting time-lapse photography.

It would take me a month to shoot a four minutes roll of film

I've been shooting time-lapse flowers continuously,

non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for over 30 years.

And to see them move is a dance I'll never get tired of.

Their beauty immerses us with color, taste, touch.

It also provides a third of the food we eat.

Beauty and seduction is nature's tools for survival

because we protect what we fall in love with.

It opens our hearts and makes us realize we are a part of nature

When we see ourselves in nature, it also connects us

to every one of us, because it's clear that it's all connected in one.

When people see my images a lot of times they'll say,

The "Oh" means it caught your attention, makes you present, makes you mindful.

The "my" means it connects with something deep inside your soul.

It creates a gateway for your inner voice to rise up and be heard.

God is that personal journey we all want to be on to be inspired,

to feel like we're connected to a Universe that celebrates life.

of the information we receive comes through our eyes?

And if you compare light energy to musical scales

that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

And aren't we grateful for our brains that can

take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy

to create images in order for us to explore our world?

And aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations,

in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

So I have a gift I want to share with you today.

A project I'm working on called "Happiness Revealed"

and it'll give us a glimpse into that perspective

from the point of view of a child and an elderly man of that world.

It's just some shows that you just, that are pretend,

you get more imagination than you already had.

so you can get more, and see beautifuler things.

Like, it could, the path, if it's a path it could lead you,

it could lead you to a beach or something,

David Steindl-Rast: You think this is just another day in your life?

it's the one day that is given to you today.

It's the only gift that you have right now,

and the only appropriate response is gratefulness.

If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response

to the great gift that this unique day is,

if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life,

then you will have spent this day very well.

Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised

that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment.

We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment,

And even of the weather, we don't think of all the many nuances of weather.

We just think of good weather and bad weather.

maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again.

The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same that is right now.

Look at the faces of people whom you meet.

Each one has an incredible story behind their face,

a story that you could never fully fathom.

Not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors.

all the people you meet, all that life from generations

and from so many places all over the world,