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From the Ted Talk by Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

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It's gerat being here at TED. You know, I think there might be some psietnteonras that will go over my head, but the most amazing concepts are the ones that go right under my feet. The little things in life, sometimes that we fgeort about, like pnilaltioon, 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.

I've been filming time-lapse felorws 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for over 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I'm never going to get tired of. It fills me with wonder, and it opens my heart. Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. Their relationship is a love sroty that feeds the Earth. It rmidens us that we are a part of narute, and we're not separate from it.

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It's _____ being here at TED. You know, I think there might be some _____________ that will go over my head, but the most amazing concepts are the ones that go right under my feet. The little things in life, sometimes that we ______ about, like ___________, 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.

I've been filming time-lapse _______ 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for over 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I'm never going to get tired of. It fills me with wonder, and it opens my heart. Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. Their relationship is a love _____ that feeds the Earth. It _______ us that we are a part of ______, and we're not separate from it.

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  1. forget
  2. nature
  3. flowers
  4. reminds
  5. story
  6. presentations
  7. pollination
  8. great

Original Text


It's great being here at TED. You know, I think there might be some presentations that will go over my head, but the most amazing concepts are the ones that go right under my feet. The little things in life, sometimes that we forget about, 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.

I've been filming time-lapse flowers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for over 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I'm never going to get tired of. It fills me with wonder, and it opens my heart. Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. 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.

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