Narrated by Liam Neeson
Love Thy Nature
vividly illustrates how we've lost touch with nature and presents a
compelling case that reconnecting with the natural world is the key to
improving personal health and ensuring our survival on earth.
Traversing
the globe, the film celebrates the dazzling natural spectacles of our
planet, while also revealing how a deeper connection with nature can
transform each of us and inspire us to restore endangered ecosystems, as
well as the human family.
Liam Neeson provides the voice of Homo
Sapiens "our collective humankind" reflecting on how in the past
several thousand years we have become separate from nature, believing we
were meant to subdue it. The film especially traces the disconnect
between humans and nature from the agrarian and industrial revolutions
to the digital revolution. This disconnect has disrupted billions of
years of evolution, leading to a mass extinction of species and
threatening the very survival of the human race.
With the help of
a variety of experts, the film highlights the restorative power of
nature and several hopeful new developments. The emerging science of
biomimicry emulates and borrows from nature's designs rather than simply
harvesting its raw materials. In the medical field, doctors are
unveiling new findings on the role of nature in sustaining and healing
the human body, and have discovered that spending time in nature can
promote personal health and emotional stability.
Ultimately,
Love Thy Nature
shows how a renewed connection with nature is key both to improving our
well-being and to solving our environmental crisis, and proposes some
simple ways to make nature a bigger part of our lives.
AMONG THE EXPERTS FEATURED IN THE FILM:- Dayna Baumeister, PhD, Co-Founder, Biomimicry Institute
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Brian Swimme, PhD, Cosmologist and Author
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Andy Lipkis, Founder, TreePeople
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Duane Elgin, Author and NASA Consultant
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Stephen R. Kellert, PhD, Professor of Social Ecology, Yale University
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Evon Peter, Indigenous Leader, University of Alaska
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Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, Psychiatrist and Author
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Jay Harman, Biomimicry Inventor
- Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD, Evolutionary Biologist
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Philip Barr, MD
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Alex Zaphiris, MD
TWO SHORTER VERSIONS INCLUDED
Ideal for use in classrooms or other settings to help students
understand the value of experiencing nature and encourage them to get
outside.
