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Nexus of human with the natural world. | Nathan Lowe | TEDxUniversityofCentralAsia


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there’s a stark reminder that no matter
how I dance me become in science or
technology or into Asian techniques he
still had no control over the power of
life and death my remembrance about my
grandmother and I was struck by the
positive things he had to say he said
she only stopped to smell the roses she
only stopped to smell the roses here’s
something you would ever make
expressions and stop and smell the roses
the original expression comes back from
the phones or computers or even color
TVs in most people’s homes in this hack
in 1956 that the golfer Walter Hagen
first hand the phrase you’re only here
for a short visit don’t worry don’t
worry and be sure to smell the flowers
along the way you’re only here for a
short visit
don’t hurry don’t worry and be sure to
smell the flowers along the way well
some of you may be in a hurry because
they join a expression to to stop and
smell the roses with our busy lives and
near constant communication as we rush
around
he transferred and were bombarded of
texts and emails how many of us are
still keen Walter Hagen suffice as we as
society progresses and development and
soon as we seems like even further and
further away from nature and protection
we now spend more time the symptoms that
we do the birds and insects outside our
windows we spent one time standing at
screensavers that we do an actual
natural images the screensavers project
my window is an air conditioning units
to maintain your constant temperature
inside our homes as if we had just one
season instead of four we were best to
them in all of nature and it’s Elvis
outside and control our environments in
sight but Curtis also has the remedy
many of us are longing for with 94% of
the country covered in mountains and
more than 80 different mountain ranges
Curtis on still offers plenty of
opportunities for those of us who bomb
to stop and smell the roses
there are also world’s largest wild
walnut forests and more than 2,000
alpine lakes in Cary Sun is only the
most famous of those so when I told taxi
here at night that people start asking
me questions and
and of course the first question is well
do you like the air hurry son you’d like
it into mercury stock and of course the
answer is yes I do and the fall the
question is inevitably what why what is
there to like about not great stuff and
I look up and go to the mountains and
say this mountain stop dropping and one
of the fact that I can hit five minutes
straight out my Lenin Street apartment
door and it’s sort of edge of the
mountains with my wife and two kids and
we can be behind the pile of Chinese
made plastic no he’s making
battery-operated toys but my son thanks
to play or anything away from the 3G 4G
like this area and head up to the
mountains to go explore some caves or
pick up rocks so what is it with all
this fascination regionality nature for
there are many of people in the
developed world who are longing for just
such an experience people who feel
claustrophobic we surrounded by old
technology and modernity and it’s long
for the Gurney’s life of shepherds
appendage ILO’s if you’re totally
surrounded by there is devising I just
desire for something more so for people
like this I gave them the opportunity I
started a tourism business I take them
out to places like some of the war Kozue
where there is no internet signal or
even someone said no for that matter
it’s there that the opportunity to not
only climb those mountains but they
can’t go out the places the three-month
of fresh mountain air like horses is
there milk cow for the first time
sometimes they get the opportunity to
try Kyrgyz national dishes like that
farm offer because they can spare a bit
of starry night skies and swim in those
hot penguinx and occasionally pick some
flowers so what is it before this
fascination with mission no intention
major loss of control inside of us that
lots of control is what our souls are
desperately seeking we set schedules to
control our days we have alarm clocks to
control our sleeping we controlled our
children need and what they watch we
have tables to control pain because what
we eat what we dress and help me look in
order to control their appearances
remote control and this happens on a
larger scale all over the world as well
we have dams at Remagen 20 years row of
water we unbox that control access we
frame your different people to control
access to our social lives and controls
with their name implies that is totally
obsessed with big industrial machines he
knows them all by name and you can point
about to you and say oh that’s an
excavator that’s a front loader that’s a
bulldozer and what is their purpose very
much the same to try to control nature’s
land put aside their side trees and
rocks centered
natural elements and put in their place
man-made objects that are more easy to
control the touch of a button when we
can’t fully control things such as
nature we do our best to explain them
into submission things like weather
forecasters try to predict the weather
months in advance
psychiatrists delve into emotional
issues trying to understand our brains
and researchers analysts try to analyze
things like love and attraction and
explain the ways hormones work nor
things but deep down inside of us is a
recognition that we’re not actually in
control Turkey’s heritage traces its
roots back to nomadic societies as
people journey down the ancient Silk
Roads they had a much greater
understanding that man is not in control
things like avalanches and rockslides
mudslides could potentially delay carry
and travel for weeks to months not just
a period of a few hours of days such as
happened on a hard road this winter with
average severe storms thunderstorms snow
storms could be potentially
life-threatening to the animals through
their results not just spoil of an
afternoon of fun as we grow closer to
nature we have a lot to learn from these
ancient cultures I remember with
fondness back when I was an English
teacher teaching English in Ukraine to
students there was a little boy named
oleg and oh they would come to school
each day and his parents would drop them
off or he would walk to school but
instead of actually going into the
school building
he would just climb a tree is it in
school Gary as the semester or on and
all his peers were busy doing their
homework
Cheers there was a little wave almost
always on that same tree just looking
around at nature at the end of the
semester at the end of the year when
they were site grades or ever late was
feeling English
building history and mathematics and so
on
but he got a passing grade for biology
because his teachers understood that he
knew something about biology without his
tie instead of nature so just like us
the whole lake was learning about the
freedom of nature’s with beasts away
from the control the seizures and
textbooks – and learn something about
ourselves and our desire for nature’s
release in our lives and spend every
nation natural disasters can shake us
into just such a reality things like
tornado as the Hurricanes and even
earthquake such as we experience all the
way up here at night recently he said
wake-up calls where – that man is not
actually in control it was back in 2004
do you remember the Indian Ocean
earthquake and tsunami that killed
people in 14 different countries and
actually shook our entire planet these
are reminders that man is I actually in
control then there’s something bigger
than ourselves but it doesn’t have to be
only after disasters and tragedies that
remind us of something bigger than
ourselves out there climb a mountain
around here and looking at it from a far
off thing it might not seem too steep or
hard to find or very big you got into a
space and start climbing
change your mind if you spend half a day
to the top of elevation out of way and
tired you will realize just how wrong
with your initial assessment once a
consider that the mountains around here
only half as high is some of Paris on
highest mountains mountains like yellow
Indiana is 1400 metres shorter than this
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is not plugging in ancient design need
to remember to transcend a word or make
a plan first interval continue to
survive consider that if it wasn’t for
perfect that versus perfect rotation
around the Sun if we weren’t exactly
situated two-thirds of the way first
edge of the Milky Way galaxy or we
didn’t have an eye
our planet Jupiter to shield our country
our shirt our planet from the solar
system’s asteroid or a unique
environment controls the tilt and times
of this planet life would not be
sustained to here incredible but here we
are today I have not had any control
over these factors you would not have
any control over these factors but
nobody Paul of history has had any
control over this if here we are
continuing to survive even thrive
thousands of years later but there’s
great comfort in this is one you do not
have to feel all the plastics pressures
to try to control everything in your
environment if we regularly take Robert
Frost road less traveled we might start
to find comfort in the fact that we
don’t have to control everything in our
environments and not feel threatened
when any sense of our control is getting
away from this and that’s what means
nature such a relaxing place to same
time again my my two kids two hundred
five year old leaves love to head up
into the mountains it’s there that they
are free from all of society’s pressures
that doesn’t mean why don’t run don’t
pick up rocks don’t throw rocks there
they free they have no boundaries they
have nature is all around them and they
can throw rocks it and run they can make
noise they have that freedom so if we
start to understand that
in Asia we have that freedom we do not
have to control everything in our
environments or control what we eat or
how much from the waiter when we last
bathe it is a nation that we are free
from that control that tells us don’t
work out so hard or study so hard to see
what money to buy more things that we’re
going to have to control that our lives
nature breezes from the control of what
people view us as beauty in different
places in fact if you look at all around
this how people view beauty in terms of
fashion or clothing your funny jokes or
architecture and vary greatly from
person to person or nation to nation but
just a warning snow-capped mountain show
someone to go market or a powerful Snow
Leopard a crystal roommate or a valley
of flowers responsible universe
beautiful or even just one flower say
what a majors finest perhaps awareness
so let’s not let all the major classes
by busy like sarin and since we make a
weak attempt to control our environments
as we journey down the same paths at the
ancient Silk Road let’s remember to stop
at that crossroads venture out into
nature and stop being a loss of control
and remember
DISA and sundresses
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