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.
Divno je biti ovde na TED konferenciji. Znate, mislim da će ovde verovatno biti nekih predavanja koja i neću moći u potpunosti da shvatim, ali koncepti koji najviše očaravaju su oni koji su istovremeno i najjednostavniji. Male stvari u životu, koje ponekada zaboravimo, kao što je oprašivanje cveća, mi često uzimamo zdravo za gotovo. Ali ne možete ispričati priču o oprašivačima -- pčelama, slepim miševima, kolibrima, leptirima -- a da ne spomenete izume cvetnica i kako su oni ko-evoluirali u periodu od 50 miliona godina.
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.
Ja sam snimao cvetnice po 24 časa na dan, 7 dana nedeljno, u periodu od 35 godina. Posmatranje njihovih pokreta je ples od kojeg ja nikada neću biti umoran. Ispunjava me osećanjem čuda i otvara moje srce. Lepota i zavođenje, čini mi se, je oruđe prirode za preživljavanje, jer ćemo mi zaštititi one u koje smo zaljubljeni. Njihov međusobni odnos je ljubavna priča koja hrani planetu Zemlju. Podseća nas da smo mi deo prirode, i da nismo odvojeni od nje.
When I heard about the vanishing bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, it motivated me to take action. We depend on pollinators for over a third of the fruits and vegetables we eat. And many scientists believe it's the most serious issue facing mankind. It's like the canary in the coalmine. If they disappear, so do we. It reminds us that we are a part of nature and we need to take care of it.
Kada sam čuo priču o pčelama koje nestaju, o Koloniji kolapsirajućeg nereda, to me je motivisalo da preduzmem nešto. Više od trećine voća i povrća koje koristimo u ishrani, zavisi od oprašivača. I mnogi naučnici veruju da je to jedan od najozbiljnijih problema sa kojim se čovečanstvo suočava. To je isto kao i kanarinac u rudniku uglja. Ukoliko oni nestanu, nestaćemo i mi. Podseća nas da smo deo prirode i da treba da vodimo računa o njoj.
What motivated me to film their behavior was something that I asked my scientific advisers: "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." And Chip Taylor, our monarch butterfly expert, he replied, "Nothing lasts forever. Everything in the universe wears out."
Ono što me je motivisalo da snimam njihovo ponašanje jeste pitanje koje sam postavio svojim naučnim mentorima: Šta motiviše oprašivače? Pa, njihov odgovor je bio: "Sve se svodi na rizik i nagradu." Kao dete razrogačenih očiju sam pitao: "A zašto je to tako?" A oni su mi odgovorili: "Pa, usled toga što oni žele da prežive." I opet ja: "Zašto?" "Pa, kako bi se razmnožavali." "Pa, zašto?" I pomislio sam tada da će mi reći: "Pa, sve je to povezano sa seksom." Tada je Čip Tejlor, naš glavni stručnjak za leptire, odgovorio: "Ništa ne traje večno. Sve u ovoj vasioni nestane jednom."
And that blew my mind. Because I realized that 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. It's the mystical moment where life regenerates itself, over and over again.
To me je potpuno šokiralo. Shvatio sam da je priroda izmislila reprodukciju kao mehanizam za pokretanje života unapred, bukvalno kao životnu silu koja prolazi pravo kroz nas i čini nas karikom u evoluciji života. Retko uočeno golim okom, ovo ukrštanje životinjskog sveta i sveta biljaka je zaista magičan trenutak. To je tajanstveni trenutak u kojem život ponovo nastaje, iznova i iznova.
So here is some nectar from my film. I hope you'll drink, tweet and plant some seeds to pollinate a friendly garden. And always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder. Here are some images from the film.
Ovo je mali deo nektara iz mog filma. Nadam se da ćete ga popiti, cvrkutati i zasaditi neko semenje kako biste oprašili prijateljski vrt. Nađite uvek dovoljno vremena da pomirišete cveće i prepustite se da vas ispuni lepotom, i ponovo otkrijte osećaj čuda. Ovo su neke od slika iz mog filma.
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Thank you. Thank you very much.
Hvala vam. Hvala vam mnogo.
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Thank you.
Hvala vam.
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