I had the chance to attend my
own funeral then it was the 15th
August 2016 in very small committee
only with my parents who wanted
something something simple
something sober
a few days before my death I was in
alaska over the polar circle
Arctic and that’s more than two
weeks that I have not crossed a
human trace
no road no waste not even a
plane in the sky nothing i’m alone
but not quite the bears do not you
company and some are real
see
a bone jump to the ooo
oh oh oh oh oh oh I have an appointment
on my satellite phone with my
father and mother
except that I forget to call them and so
so he concludes that I’m dead and
logically like whoever would do it
is writing the speech of my
funeral then irony of this
story it was at the same time that my
parents crying my being it was
valiantly beaten against a hand-bear
naked all the same I came across a
abandoned mine and so it was a train
of my little brother happily
canned goods while ben my
parents wrote their speeches lo
a few weeks later I returned to
return to Paris and allowed his text
he wonders about the life of achilles the
Greek hero who chose a short life
but glorious rather than an existence
long but without luster
he wonders if he was right to live
like that achilles if I was right
to say like that I elliott dead but
let’s go back a few years back
I’m 20 years old I’m tired of sitting
and I decide to leave my class of
sup math for australia so like
a lot of young people of my age I know
not good what to do with my life I am a
little lost and I simply say to myself that a
that a trip will give me ideas in
square
actually it blew them up my ideas
by accident
I find myself several days in a
rainforest with a pack of pasta
for only living for the first time
I discover loneliness silence
space the slowness of walking and the
living with other animals I discover
as well as eating raw pasta for
a week it’s not at all
recommendable and I do not recommend
not but I’m so dazzled by
this experience in the wild
and that I decide to make my job
here I will be so explorers the year
next
me young suburban
seine-saint-denis I landed at 22 in
full Mongolian steppe
so things make me fall on
a horse completely unstable and
probably schizophrenic delighted with me
to fuck with a hoof as soon as he
occasionally
Oh
thanks to nomads
I discover a way of life totally
autonomous one makes ropes with the
mane of their horses the sweaters with
the wool of their sheep cheese
cream and even alcohol with the
milk from their cattle
to my surprise they spend
spend whole days picking up
yak scholarships so at the beginning
I was a little surprised I did not understand
well why do they have collections
I thought it was another
culture and then I ended up understanding
that yak shit is an excellent
fuel for heating and for
to cook I’m learning here and that’s it
it’s important to moisten
delicately face with their anthem
of a grandmother can bring down
the fever drastically and for
that actually I decided to believe them on
say the nomads does not explain things
fundamental that we forget when we live
in the city
in fact I realize that strength to be
surrounded since my birth by
stores filled with clothes filled with
food by big building by
concrete that I’m completely cut off from
the origin of things I saw this trip
full of energy full in the aude
enthusiasm I start to get interested
by far the ecology have I shared a
optimism a little silly I tell myself that a
little good will
some wind turbines and garbage cans
multicolored solve the problem
change the world has any of
ambitions everything is possible everything is
possible back to paris after three
month in nature
the break is brutal
for the first time I take
aware that civilization is a
bubble where the man thinks himself masters and
possessors of nature
the problem but jumps to the mouth
man belongs to nature he has it
forget it
I discover the reality of the world
first shock in 23 years direction
alaska this time i’m not going away anymore
to save the world but to flee
an intuition a little vague but very
powerful who grows up in me
in fact I think our societies are
crazy and that the world runs to the
disaster in my travel diary
I write I see civilization as
a leaf that has just come off
her branch she loses theft such three
shutters she thinks herself free from
its base
then she crashes on the floors and
realizes that since all this time she
was already dead
back in Paris I ‘m interested in a
a little closer to the state of the planet
then scientific reports 60% of
wild animals exterminated in 40 years
80% of European insects exterminated in
30 years 200 species exterminate each
day pollution deforestation the
oceans keith ice melting life
exploitation deny resources
Natural
book after book article after article
I discover that the living is what
makes our planet unique in everything
the universe mores and they die more
faster
in fact I realize we are all in
a plane in first class that the
champagne flows that puts them
more exquisite are served in abundance
everyone is partying
convinced to live a wonderful time
the only problem is that the plane is in
crash and that nobody
look through the porthole
second shock is a lot more brutal
that one ended up being convinced that
is heading right towards the end of the world that
humanity will disappear by taking with
she a huge part of the living is the
more terrible is that more science
brings us the evidence of the
disaster plus destruction
then accelerates my optimism the
places a total despair
the following year I leave again on an expedition
to cross the Himalayan range to
foot is the way for me to
to regain strength
it allows me to keep calming your
trip decides to separate me all
industrial objects from my from my bag to
back and replace it with nature
for four months I walk alone in
the mountains I ‘m accompanied by this
beautiful little white horse that I name
robert and that turns out much more
balanced and friendly than the other
fool who had accompanied me in
Mongolia
I meet the Tibetan nomads and
the last hunter-gatherers of asia
these encounters do not restore faith in man
it reminds me that there are
humans able to live in harmony
with nature
a life without destroying all others
is possible in the city I quickly become
misanthrope in nature
it’s rare meeting makes me love
men
solitude is the greatest of
humanists ended this trip with a
bamboo tactician of goat skin in
For coats I came to me
to separate from my aunt while sleeping in
caves and for the first time in my
life I manage to make fire by
friction
I feel free soothed as if I had
found a balance on the crest of
mountains I fill but lung
of oxygen to be able to snorkel
my return before leaving in fact
it’s in town that I survive and in the
wild that I live fully back
In Paris, I take back my double life
perpetual shift between the part of
my brain who knows that every empire of
day by day and the other who is going to have some
shots with his friends who tries to live
in society without being too noticeable
and there
do you figure it’s good people from
tedx narbonne contact me for me
propose a conference
so I immediately thought of a
superb introduction to something inspiring
a message of hope I would say they
were doing something like we all
crever tedx or pathetic it does not serve
strictly nothing but nothing at all
what
and oddly the organizers
have not been so excited about this
this idea so I’m trying to dig a
little what do I do why I
do in fact there
I ask myself for the first time
how to live to 25 years in a world that
dies I realize I’m going into the
nature as if I was going on another
planet
no more connection between the life I lead
here in paris and there on the planet
wild
nothing happens between the two worlds I
close the door
I feel a sense of urgency
I am looking for answers I meet
people who are aware of the situation
I discover that I am not alone and that
does a good job
despite their knowledge of the situation
they want to fight back
build the future of things that me
seemed completely wacky yet
very recently three months ago in August
last I’m leaving on an expedition to
cross the Amazon jungle
so the goal is always the same
separate from all the objects in my bag to
back everything did not go as planned
I get arrested
the gendarmes they teach me that the
jungle area where I find myself is
prohibited
so I have three options 1 went well
the dam will make me operate to change
of itinerary or 3 returned to paris
I chose to change the route and the
the eve of my new departure I am
wake up with a start and I see a man
run away with all my
business in his hands I find myself
so naked in the jungle with nothing
so me that he wanted me dispossessed of
all the affairs of my backpack I
think we can say that this
expedition is a real success and
the next day I realize that the
where I installed my hammock
is called the terminus it can really
the terminus
so when you finish naked in the middle of the night
in the Amazon jungle
it’s usually a good way to get
questioning for to make a
little point about his life what and it’s this
that I did I’m forced to go back
prematurely
what would that be like
it’s an opportunity to bring these two
worlds
or rather his two months the one who survives
in town and living in nature
and I think that’s it
I can live
also when I’m back in the
civilization that I demonstrate the
same energy of the same fighting spirit of
the same desire that an expedition the trip
continue to my return I do not want more
flee nor forget the real ones it’s time
that I face him in fact it was
allowed me to overcome a
much more difficult expedition which
had lasted for years now a
kind of domestic shipping take the
measure of disaster knocked me out
then desperate and finally she me
restore capacity to act
remember the day of my funeral
in Alaska and the speech of my text from
my father on the brief and exciting life
Achille I would lead for him
reply
if I go out in the wild it’s for
live soberly away from the excitement and
the excesses of civilization is
she who chose to lead a brief life
exciting like achilles but I have
the impression that the reality we
catch up and we reach the end of
this brief grandeur and their brothel
still has not answered the question
how to live to 25 years in a world that
dies do you think that the
solution is to go on another
planet
well I think we already saw
as if we lived on another planet
so I prefer to return to earth and
defense that remains to defend the good
new is that something
immense is fighting our side it’s
the whole living thing that wants
desperately live it’s the tiny
racing that attacks the greatest of
dams it’s the flower that grows on
the sidewalk it’s laurent as much as they
tackle the shovels that
devastate his father and his territory
surrendered to 10 who defend wildlife at
Our Lady of the moors is elsewhere
these beings struggle with all their might
against collapse
all want to breathe all want
push all want to live I learned
recently that the word courage comes from
heart word as the d says
johnsen vital geneva courage and good
sure love and we need everything
the courage of which the human heart is
able to defend what’s left of
this planet
all that is missing is the resistance
human to put an end to this
destruction that has been going on for too long
long time
the whole earth resists all beings
alive resist they are in our
camp and we do not join them
at work
[Applause]
[Music]
own funeral then it was the 15th
August 2016 in very small committee
only with my parents who wanted
something something simple
something sober
a few days before my death I was in
alaska over the polar circle
Arctic and that’s more than two
weeks that I have not crossed a
human trace
no road no waste not even a
plane in the sky nothing i’m alone
but not quite the bears do not you
company and some are real
see
a bone jump to the ooo
oh oh oh oh oh oh I have an appointment
on my satellite phone with my
father and mother
except that I forget to call them and so
so he concludes that I’m dead and
logically like whoever would do it
is writing the speech of my
funeral then irony of this
story it was at the same time that my
parents crying my being it was
valiantly beaten against a hand-bear
naked all the same I came across a
abandoned mine and so it was a train
of my little brother happily
canned goods while ben my
parents wrote their speeches lo
a few weeks later I returned to
return to Paris and allowed his text
he wonders about the life of achilles the
Greek hero who chose a short life
but glorious rather than an existence
long but without luster
he wonders if he was right to live
like that achilles if I was right
to say like that I elliott dead but
let’s go back a few years back
I’m 20 years old I’m tired of sitting
and I decide to leave my class of
sup math for australia so like
a lot of young people of my age I know
not good what to do with my life I am a
little lost and I simply say to myself that a
that a trip will give me ideas in
square
actually it blew them up my ideas
by accident
I find myself several days in a
rainforest with a pack of pasta
for only living for the first time
I discover loneliness silence
space the slowness of walking and the
living with other animals I discover
as well as eating raw pasta for
a week it’s not at all
recommendable and I do not recommend
not but I’m so dazzled by
this experience in the wild
and that I decide to make my job
here I will be so explorers the year
next
me young suburban
seine-saint-denis I landed at 22 in
full Mongolian steppe
so things make me fall on
a horse completely unstable and
probably schizophrenic delighted with me
to fuck with a hoof as soon as he
occasionally
Oh
thanks to nomads
I discover a way of life totally
autonomous one makes ropes with the
mane of their horses the sweaters with
the wool of their sheep cheese
cream and even alcohol with the
milk from their cattle
to my surprise they spend
spend whole days picking up
yak scholarships so at the beginning
I was a little surprised I did not understand
well why do they have collections
I thought it was another
culture and then I ended up understanding
that yak shit is an excellent
fuel for heating and for
to cook I’m learning here and that’s it
it’s important to moisten
delicately face with their anthem
of a grandmother can bring down
the fever drastically and for
that actually I decided to believe them on
say the nomads does not explain things
fundamental that we forget when we live
in the city
in fact I realize that strength to be
surrounded since my birth by
stores filled with clothes filled with
food by big building by
concrete that I’m completely cut off from
the origin of things I saw this trip
full of energy full in the aude
enthusiasm I start to get interested
by far the ecology have I shared a
optimism a little silly I tell myself that a
little good will
some wind turbines and garbage cans
multicolored solve the problem
change the world has any of
ambitions everything is possible everything is
possible back to paris after three
month in nature
the break is brutal
for the first time I take
aware that civilization is a
bubble where the man thinks himself masters and
possessors of nature
the problem but jumps to the mouth
man belongs to nature he has it
forget it
I discover the reality of the world
first shock in 23 years direction
alaska this time i’m not going away anymore
to save the world but to flee
an intuition a little vague but very
powerful who grows up in me
in fact I think our societies are
crazy and that the world runs to the
disaster in my travel diary
I write I see civilization as
a leaf that has just come off
her branch she loses theft such three
shutters she thinks herself free from
its base
then she crashes on the floors and
realizes that since all this time she
was already dead
back in Paris I ‘m interested in a
a little closer to the state of the planet
then scientific reports 60% of
wild animals exterminated in 40 years
80% of European insects exterminated in
30 years 200 species exterminate each
day pollution deforestation the
oceans keith ice melting life
exploitation deny resources
Natural
book after book article after article
I discover that the living is what
makes our planet unique in everything
the universe mores and they die more
faster
in fact I realize we are all in
a plane in first class that the
champagne flows that puts them
more exquisite are served in abundance
everyone is partying
convinced to live a wonderful time
the only problem is that the plane is in
crash and that nobody
look through the porthole
second shock is a lot more brutal
that one ended up being convinced that
is heading right towards the end of the world that
humanity will disappear by taking with
she a huge part of the living is the
more terrible is that more science
brings us the evidence of the
disaster plus destruction
then accelerates my optimism the
places a total despair
the following year I leave again on an expedition
to cross the Himalayan range to
foot is the way for me to
to regain strength
it allows me to keep calming your
trip decides to separate me all
industrial objects from my from my bag to
back and replace it with nature
for four months I walk alone in
the mountains I ‘m accompanied by this
beautiful little white horse that I name
robert and that turns out much more
balanced and friendly than the other
fool who had accompanied me in
Mongolia
I meet the Tibetan nomads and
the last hunter-gatherers of asia
these encounters do not restore faith in man
it reminds me that there are
humans able to live in harmony
with nature
a life without destroying all others
is possible in the city I quickly become
misanthrope in nature
it’s rare meeting makes me love
men
solitude is the greatest of
humanists ended this trip with a
bamboo tactician of goat skin in
For coats I came to me
to separate from my aunt while sleeping in
caves and for the first time in my
life I manage to make fire by
friction
I feel free soothed as if I had
found a balance on the crest of
mountains I fill but lung
of oxygen to be able to snorkel
my return before leaving in fact
it’s in town that I survive and in the
wild that I live fully back
In Paris, I take back my double life
perpetual shift between the part of
my brain who knows that every empire of
day by day and the other who is going to have some
shots with his friends who tries to live
in society without being too noticeable
and there
do you figure it’s good people from
tedx narbonne contact me for me
propose a conference
so I immediately thought of a
superb introduction to something inspiring
a message of hope I would say they
were doing something like we all
crever tedx or pathetic it does not serve
strictly nothing but nothing at all
what
and oddly the organizers
have not been so excited about this
this idea so I’m trying to dig a
little what do I do why I
do in fact there
I ask myself for the first time
how to live to 25 years in a world that
dies I realize I’m going into the
nature as if I was going on another
planet
no more connection between the life I lead
here in paris and there on the planet
wild
nothing happens between the two worlds I
close the door
I feel a sense of urgency
I am looking for answers I meet
people who are aware of the situation
I discover that I am not alone and that
does a good job
despite their knowledge of the situation
they want to fight back
build the future of things that me
seemed completely wacky yet
very recently three months ago in August
last I’m leaving on an expedition to
cross the Amazon jungle
so the goal is always the same
separate from all the objects in my bag to
back everything did not go as planned
I get arrested
the gendarmes they teach me that the
jungle area where I find myself is
prohibited
so I have three options 1 went well
the dam will make me operate to change
of itinerary or 3 returned to paris
I chose to change the route and the
the eve of my new departure I am
wake up with a start and I see a man
run away with all my
business in his hands I find myself
so naked in the jungle with nothing
so me that he wanted me dispossessed of
all the affairs of my backpack I
think we can say that this
expedition is a real success and
the next day I realize that the
where I installed my hammock
is called the terminus it can really
the terminus
so when you finish naked in the middle of the night
in the Amazon jungle
it’s usually a good way to get
questioning for to make a
little point about his life what and it’s this
that I did I’m forced to go back
prematurely
what would that be like
it’s an opportunity to bring these two
worlds
or rather his two months the one who survives
in town and living in nature
and I think that’s it
I can live
also when I’m back in the
civilization that I demonstrate the
same energy of the same fighting spirit of
the same desire that an expedition the trip
continue to my return I do not want more
flee nor forget the real ones it’s time
that I face him in fact it was
allowed me to overcome a
much more difficult expedition which
had lasted for years now a
kind of domestic shipping take the
measure of disaster knocked me out
then desperate and finally she me
restore capacity to act
remember the day of my funeral
in Alaska and the speech of my text from
my father on the brief and exciting life
Achille I would lead for him
reply
if I go out in the wild it’s for
live soberly away from the excitement and
the excesses of civilization is
she who chose to lead a brief life
exciting like achilles but I have
the impression that the reality we
catch up and we reach the end of
this brief grandeur and their brothel
still has not answered the question
how to live to 25 years in a world that
dies do you think that the
solution is to go on another
planet
well I think we already saw
as if we lived on another planet
so I prefer to return to earth and
defense that remains to defend the good
new is that something
immense is fighting our side it’s
the whole living thing that wants
desperately live it’s the tiny
racing that attacks the greatest of
dams it’s the flower that grows on
the sidewalk it’s laurent as much as they
tackle the shovels that
devastate his father and his territory
surrendered to 10 who defend wildlife at
Our Lady of the moors is elsewhere
these beings struggle with all their might
against collapse
all want to breathe all want
push all want to live I learned
recently that the word courage comes from
heart word as the d says
johnsen vital geneva courage and good
sure love and we need everything
the courage of which the human heart is
able to defend what’s left of
this planet
all that is missing is the resistance
human to put an end to this
destruction that has been going on for too long
long time
the whole earth resists all beings
alive resist they are in our
camp and we do not join them
at work
[Applause]
[Music]
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