ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker
Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images that celebrate life -- revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty.

Why you should listen

Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer whose career spans more than four decades of providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Schwartzberg's recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film, Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries of the Unseen World is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Schwartzberg also directed Soarin' Around the World, an international update to the original Soarin' ride now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai.

Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in early 2017.

Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Schwartzberg is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.

For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. "I hope my films inspire and open people's hearts," he says. "Beauty is nature's tool for survival -- we protect what we love. Nature's beauty can open hearts, and the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life."

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Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

Louie Schwartzberg: L'inedita bellezza dell'impollinazione

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Impollinazione: è fondamentale per la vita sulla Terra, ma spesso sfugge alla vista dell'occhio umano. Il regista Louie Schwartzberg ci mostra il complesso mondo del polline e degli impollinatori con meravigliose immagini ad alta velocità prese dal suo film "Ali di Vita", ispirato dalla lenta scomparsa dei più importanti impollinatori in natura, le api.
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It's great beingessere here at TEDTED.
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E' fantastico essere qui a TED.
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You know, I think there mightpotrebbe be some presentationspresentazioni
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Sapete, immagino ci saranno delle presentazioni
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that will go over my headcapo,
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che eclisseranno la mia,
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but the mostmaggior parte amazingStupefacente conceptsconcetti
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ma i concetti più affascinanti
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are the onesquelli that go right undersotto my feetpiedi.
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sono quelli che stanno proprio sotto i miei piedi.
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The little things in life,
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Le piccole cose della vita,
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sometimesa volte that we forgetdimenticare about,
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di cui a volte ci dimentichiamo,
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like pollinationimpollinazione, that we take for grantedconcesso.
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come l'impollinazione, che diamo per scontata.
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And you can't tell the storystoria about pollinatorsimpollinatori --
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Non si può parlare degli impollinatori --
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beesAPI, batspipistrelli, hummingbirdsColibrì, butterfliesfarfalle --
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api, pipistrelli, colibrì, farfalle --
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withoutsenza tellingraccontare the storystoria about the inventioninvenzione of flowersfiori
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senza raccontare la storia dell'invenzione dei fiori
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and how they co-evolvedco-evoluti
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e di come si sono co-evoluti
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over 50 millionmilione yearsanni.
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in 50 milioni di anni.
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I've been filmingle riprese time-lapselasso di tempo flowersfiori
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Ho filmato fiori al rallentatore
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24 hoursore a day, sevenSette daysgiorni a weeksettimana,
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24 ore al giorno, 7 giorni a settimana,
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for over 35 yearsanni.
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per oltre 35 anni.
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To watch them movemossa
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Guardarli muoversi
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is a dancedanza I'm never going to get tiredstanco of.
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è una danza che non mi stancherò mai di guardare.
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It fillsriempimenti me with wondermeravigliarsi, and it openssi apre my heartcuore.
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E' stupefacente e mi riempie di gioia.
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BeautyBellezza and seductionseduzione, I believe,
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Bellezza e seduzione, credo,
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is nature'snatura toolstrumento for survivalsopravvivenza,
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sono lo strumento della natura per sopravvivere,
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because we will protectproteggere what we fallautunno in love with.
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perché proteggiamo ciò che amiamo.
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TheirLoro relationshiprelazione
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La loro relazione
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is a love storystoria that feedsfeed the EarthTerra.
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è una storia d'amore che nutre la Terra.
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It remindsricorda us that we are a partparte of naturenatura,
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Ci ricorda che facciamo parte della Natura,
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and we're not separateseparato from it.
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e non ne siamo separati.
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When I heardsentito about the vanishingdi fuga beesAPI, ColonyColonia CollapseCrollo DisorderDisordine,
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Sapere della scomparsa delle api, Disturbo del Collasso della Colonia,
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it motivatedmotivato me to take actionazione.
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mi ha motivato ad agire.
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We dependdipendere on pollinatorsimpollinatori
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Dipendiamo dagl'impollinatori
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for over a thirdterzo of the fruitsfrutta and vegetablesverdure we eatmangiare.
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per 1/3 della frutta e della verdura che mangiamo.
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And manymolti scientistsscienziati believe
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Molti scienziati ritengono che sia
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it's the mostmaggior parte seriousgrave issueproblema facingdi fronte mankindumanità.
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il problema più serio che l'umanità deve affrontare.
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It's like the canarycanarino in the coalmineminiera di carbone.
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E' come il canarino nella miniera.
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If they disappearscomparire, so do we.
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Se scompaiono loro, scompariremo anche noi.
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It remindsricorda us that we are a partparte of naturenatura
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Ci ricorda che facciamo parte della natura
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and we need to take carecura of it.
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e dobbiamo prendercene cura.
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What motivatedmotivato me to filmfilm theirloro behaviorcomportamento
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Ciò che mi ha spinto a filmare il loro comportamento
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was something that I askedchiesto my scientificscientifico advisersconsulenti:
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è stata una cosa che ho chiesto ai miei consulenti scientifici:
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"What motivatesmotiva the pollinatorsimpollinatori?"
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Cosa motiva gl'impollinatori?
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Well, theirloro answerrisposta was,
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La risposta è stata,
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"It's all about riskrischio and rewardricompensa."
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"E' tutto un fatto di rischio e ricompensa."
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Like a wide-eyedcon gli occhi spalancati kidragazzo, I'd say, "Why is that?"
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Come un bambino ad occhi sgranati, direi, "Perché?"
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And they'davevano say, "Well, because they want to survivesopravvivere."
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E loro direbbero, "Perchè vogliono sopravvivere."
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I go, "Why?"
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Ed io, "Perché?"
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"Well, in orderordine to reproduceriprodurre."
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"Per potersi riprodurre."
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"Well, why?"
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"Ma perché?"
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And I thought that they'davevano probablyprobabilmente say, "Well, it's all about sexsesso."
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Credevo avrebbero risposto, "E' tutta una questione di sesso."
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And ChipChip TaylorTaylor, our monarchmonarca butterflyfarfalla expertesperto,
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E Chip Taylor, il nostro esperto di farfalle monarca,
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he repliedrispose, "Nothing lastsdura foreverper sempre.
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disse, "Nulla dura per sempre.
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Everything in the universeuniverso wearsindossa out."
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Tutto si consuma nell'universo."
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And that blewsoffiò my mindmente.
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Sono rimasto sbalordito.
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Because I realizedrealizzato
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Avevo capito
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that naturenatura had inventedinventato reproductionriproduzione
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che la natura ha inventato la riproduzione
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as a mechanismmeccanismo for life to movemossa forwardinoltrare,
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come mezzo per trasmettere la vita,
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as a life forcevigore that passespassaggi right throughattraverso us
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come una forza vitale che ci scorre dentro
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and makesfa us a linkcollegamento in the evolutionEvoluzione of life.
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e ci collega all'evoluzione della vita.
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RarelyRaramente seenvisto by the nakednudo eyeocchio,
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Raramente visto ad occhio nudo,
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this intersectionintersezione
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quest'incrocio
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betweenfra the animalanimale worldmondo and the plantpianta worldmondo
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tra mondo animale e mondo delle piante
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is trulyveramente a magicMagia momentmomento.
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è un momento davvero magico.
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It's the mysticalmistica momentmomento
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E' il momento mistico
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where life regeneratesRigenera itselfsi,
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in cui la vita rigenera se stessa,
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over and over again.
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ancora, ancora ed ancora.
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So here is some nectarnettare from my filmfilm.
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Ecco un po' di nettare del mio film.
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I hopesperanza you'llpotrai drinkbere, tweetTweet
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Spero lo beviate, lo diffondiate
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and plantpianta some seedssemi
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e piantate qualche seme
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to pollinateimpollinare a friendlyamichevole gardengiardino.
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per impollinare un giardino amico.
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And always take time to smellodore the flowersfiori,
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Prendetevi del tempo per annusare i fiori,
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and let it fillriempire you with beautybellezza,
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lasciate che vi riempiano con la loro bellezza,
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and rediscoverriscoprire that sensesenso of wondermeravigliarsi.
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e riscoprite quel senso di meraviglia.
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Here are some imagesimmagini from the filmfilm.
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Ecco alcune immagini dal mio film.
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Thank you.
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Grazie.
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Thank you very much.
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Grazie mille.
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Thank you.
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Grazie.
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Translated by Laura Leotta
Reviewed by Alberto Pagani

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker
Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images that celebrate life -- revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty.

Why you should listen

Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer whose career spans more than four decades of providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Schwartzberg's recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film, Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries of the Unseen World is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Schwartzberg also directed Soarin' Around the World, an international update to the original Soarin' ride now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai.

Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in early 2017.

Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Schwartzberg is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.

For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. "I hope my films inspire and open people's hearts," he says. "Beauty is nature's tool for survival -- we protect what we love. Nature's beauty can open hearts, and the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life."

More profile about the speaker
Louie Schwartzberg | Speaker | TED.com
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