TED - Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

TED Louie-Schwartzberg Pollination Nature index

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

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• like pollination, that we take for granted. And you can't tell the story about pollinators -- bees, bats, hummingbirds, butterflies -- without telling the story about the invention of flowers and how they co-evolved over 50 million years 宇宙：137亿年；地球：47亿年；恐龙：两亿三千万年前.

• Their relationship is a love story that feeds the Earth. It reminds us that we are a part of nature, and we're not separate from it.

• If they disappear, so do we. It reminds us that we are a part of nature and we need to take care of it.

• "What motivates the pollinators?"
  Well, their answer was, "It's all about risk and reward."
  Like a wide-eyed kid, I'd say, "Why is that?"
  And they'd say, "Well, because they want to survive."
  I go, "Why?"
  "Well, in order to reproduce."
  "Well, why?" And I thought that they'd probably say, "Well, it's all about sex."
  《野性亚洲》.弗洛伊德，《性学三论》

• And Chip Taylor, our monarch butterfly expert, he replied, "Nothing lasts forever. Everything in the universe wears out." 康熙王朝：我真的还想再活五百年

• nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment. 三界；动物界脊索动物门哺乳纲灵长目人科人属人种

• always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

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