Paul Rosolie

You can see everything in your phone.

but can we transcend to become an intelligent species capable of being the steward of the planet?

I think the thing is the layer of our planet that we live on, I think it's only four to 10 miles of livable atmosphere.

So if the planet was the size of a basketball, the livable atmosphere would be like a piece of cellophane, that thin, a couple of millimeters.

We exist in this tiny little section of the universe.

We are so dependent on plants and animals to create these ecosystems as the basis of our reality.

And so I just think that right now is the time where we can define our species in history.

Either we mess it up for all future generations or we save it.

And so if there's a chance, you go forward.

I mean, in life, you play the game like you can't lose.

Especially in the last five years, I can definitely say this, that I've spent more time in my adult life sleeping outdoors than I have in.

And what you're saying about nature flowing through us, that, you know, JJ showed me this when I was very young, where we would dip our hands into the river, and especially in the clear streams and drink from the stream.

And then he held his arm up in the sun and you could see the sweat coming off his arm in the sun.

And that went straight up and joined the mist coming off the canopy.

And then you see these thunderheads forming in the afternoon and it rains back down.

And then just to finish the cycle, he dipped his hand in and he drank again and he goes, it's going through us.

And that's like this incredible physical, spiritual sacrament that you go, whoa, whoa, whoa.

This water is flowing through the ecosystem and through me.

And we're so disconnected from these systems.

Whereas if you're a farmer or when I'm out in the jungle, when that sun gets up, you got to go.