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From the Ted Talk by Damon Gameau: The story that shapes your relationship with nature

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But of course, it wasn't a new story at all. It was the retelling of an old sroty. But this time, the old story was supported by the science. And it was telling the people that every breath they took was dependent on trees and phytoplankton, And that trillions of bacteria and fungi lived on them and in them and kept them alive. Viewing the natural world as sprteaae to humans was now empirically false. Humans are nautre. But the science was also telling them that ptnals could see, they could smell, hear ... they could learn and store memories. That dlphions gossiped and spoke in local dialects, etlehpans held ceremonies for dead relatives, grasshoppers could turn into lstcuos and back again in a matter of hours, and that termites had built an underground metropolis the size of the uetnid Kingdom. The same scientific iuiqrny that had led to domination and extraction had gone so deep into nature's bosom that it was revealing her secrets. And her secrets were digivunlg that she was anything but mechanistic. That she was deserving of the umostt reverence and respect. And that the original story had been right all along.

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But of course, it wasn't a new story at all. It was the retelling of an old _____. But this time, the old story was supported by the science. And it was telling the people that every breath they took was dependent on trees and phytoplankton, And that trillions of bacteria and fungi lived on them and in them and kept them alive. Viewing the natural world as ________ to humans was now empirically false. Humans are ______. But the science was also telling them that ______ could see, they could smell, hear ... they could learn and store memories. That ________ gossiped and spoke in local dialects, _________ held ceremonies for dead relatives, grasshoppers could turn into _______ and back again in a matter of hours, and that termites had built an underground metropolis the size of the ______ Kingdom. The same scientific _______ that had led to domination and extraction had gone so deep into nature's bosom that it was revealing her secrets. And her secrets were _________ that she was anything but mechanistic. That she was deserving of the ______ reverence and respect. And that the original story had been right all along.

Solution


  1. inquiry
  2. elephants
  3. utmost
  4. united
  5. plants
  6. locusts
  7. nature
  8. divulging
  9. dolphins
  10. separate
  11. story

Original Text


But of course, it wasn't a new story at all. It was the retelling of an old story. But this time, the old story was supported by the science. And it was telling the people that every breath they took was dependent on trees and phytoplankton, And that trillions of bacteria and fungi lived on them and in them and kept them alive. Viewing the natural world as separate to humans was now empirically false. Humans are nature. But the science was also telling them that plants could see, they could smell, hear ... they could learn and store memories. That dolphins gossiped and spoke in local dialects, elephants held ceremonies for dead relatives, grasshoppers could turn into locusts and back again in a matter of hours, and that termites had built an underground metropolis the size of the United Kingdom. The same scientific inquiry that had led to domination and extraction had gone so deep into nature's bosom that it was revealing her secrets. And her secrets were divulging that she was anything but mechanistic. That she was deserving of the utmost reverence and respect. And that the original story had been right all along.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
collective story 3
human beings 2
natural world 2
natural resources 2
nightly news 2
news bulletins 2
financial metrics 2
living world 2
cultural programming 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
nightly news bulletins 2

Important Words


  1. alive
  2. bacteria
  3. bosom
  4. breath
  5. built
  6. ceremonies
  7. dead
  8. deep
  9. dependent
  10. deserving
  11. dialects
  12. divulging
  13. dolphins
  14. domination
  15. elephants
  16. empirically
  17. extraction
  18. false
  19. fungi
  20. gossiped
  21. grasshoppers
  22. hear
  23. held
  24. hours
  25. humans
  26. inquiry
  27. kingdom
  28. learn
  29. led
  30. lived
  31. local
  32. locusts
  33. matter
  34. mechanistic
  35. memories
  36. metropolis
  37. natural
  38. nature
  39. original
  40. people
  41. phytoplankton
  42. plants
  43. relatives
  44. respect
  45. retelling
  46. revealing
  47. reverence
  48. science
  49. scientific
  50. secrets
  51. separate
  52. size
  53. smell
  54. spoke
  55. store
  56. story
  57. supported
  58. telling
  59. termites
  60. time
  61. trees
  62. trillions
  63. turn
  64. underground
  65. united
  66. utmost
  67. viewing
  68. world