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.
好荣幸来到TED. 我想到一些令我 印象深刻噶演示, 不过最精彩噶 系我脚下噶故事。 果D生命中微小噶野 我地有时会晤记得, 譬如大家都知道噶授粉。 你讲唔出有关授粉者噶故事 蜜蜂、蝙蝠、蜂鸟、蝴蝶... 而排除关于花噶诞生 以及距地点样在哩50亿年里面 共同进化。
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.
我拍摄左花随时间推移而变化噶视频 每日24个钟,每周7日, 超过35年。 为了睇到距地噶变化 系孜孜不倦噶舞蹈 距令我惊叹,距打开左我噶心扉。 我相信美丽和诱惑 系大自然噶生存工具, 因为我地会保护果D我地所爱噶野。 距地噶关系 系滋润地球噶爱情故事。 距令我想起我地系大自然噶一部分, 并无脱离自然。
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.
当我听到蜜蜂消失,蜂群衰落果阵, 我想即刻行动。 我地都要依赖授粉者 我地所食噶蔬菜和水果超过1/3需要距地。 唔少科学家认为 哩个系人类所面临噶最严重噶问题 就好似煤矿中噶金丝雀, 如果距地灭绝,人类都会消亡。 距令我想起我地系大自然噶一部分, 我地要保护好距
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."
令我要去拍摄距地行为噶动机来自于 我向我噶科学顾问请教左D野: 系乜嘢激发左授粉者噶积极性? 好,答案同 危险与报答有关。 我就好似一个天真噶细路咁问问题:“点解噶?” 距地话:“额,因为距地想生存落去。” 我继续问:“点解噶?” “额,为左繁殖。” “额..点解啊?” 我觉得距地好可能会讲:“额..同性有关。” 王蝶专家Chip Taylor话 “任何野都唔会无限持续落去, 所有野最终都会在宇宙中消逝。“
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.
哩句话令我震撼。 因为我意识到 大自然创造左繁殖 来作为传承生命噶机制, 作为穿越我地噶生命力量, 距令我地成为生命进化噶纽带。 好难用肉眼去捕捉 哩个在动物世界和植物世界 之间噶十字路口 真系一个魔幻般噶瞬间。 生命噶自我繁殖 系一个神秘的瞬间, 生生不息。
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.
跟住落来噶系哩部影片噶精华 我希望你地好好欣赏 跟住在花园里 播下种子。 花时间闻下D花, 距会令你充满美丽, 以及重现惊叹噶感觉。 现在我地睇下哩部影片。
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Thank you. Thank you very much.
多谢 多谢晒
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Thank you.
多谢
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