Directed by Sylvie Rokab and narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature points to how deeply we’ve lost touch with nature and takes viewers on a cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our relationship with the natural world. The film shows that a renewed connection with nature is key both to our health and the health of our planet.
Brian Swimme PhD Cosmologist – There’s not been this kind of destruction on the planet since the time of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.
Progress has its price. Duane Elgin, MA Social Scientist, NASA Consultant – Over thousands of years we’ve been progressively empowering ourselves becoming more differentiated, more identified as unique human beings but in the process, step by step pulling back from the natural world.
Dayna Baumeister, PhD Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 – the only way we’ll ever make it as a species in this planet is if we reconnect with nature.
Earth is here for us to use. We’ve now come to an end of that track and it’s no longer serving us. And we see, instead of dominion, we’re really participants in the natural world. And that’ coming more into alignment with some of the Eastern traditions as well as some of the indigenous traditions in spirituality.
Maybe this new deep understanding required our disconnection from nature. Maybe to reach this full understanding we had to go through this period of disconnection.
The biological revolution. The entire Industrial Revolution was ultimately about taking. Taking minerals, taking soil, taking oil, taking water. There’s a limit on how much you can take. By redefining our relation, it isn’t nature is there for us but we ultimately are part of the natural world. Our lives depend on it. And if we can quiet our cleverness and we can instead borrow the recipe instead of taking the raw materials, then we’ve entered the biological revolution.
