Paul Rosolie

Human lifespan is like, bloop, bloop.

We come in, we go out.

It's like the way we think of frogs.

They'll live for a little bit and then they'll move to a thousand-year-old tree.

We're insignificant.

Nothing has watched centuries and weathered storms.

You go beneath these things and you put your hands on them and you go, what do you know?

I don't know.

There's a power to them.

Well, I think it makes me incredibly sensitive.

That's where it comes from.

It makes me incredibly sensitive, especially to the natural world, to animals.

And whether that's in New York, whether that's, you know, you think of the sequoias and what's happening in the West with those forests and all over the world.

My daily life, the thing that's paramount is making sure that these ecosystems are protected, not just because we need resources from them, but because these animals exist for their own reasons.

There's families of animals out there.

There's herds of elephants.

There's animals in the trees in the Amazon.

To me, I think about this all the time.

I think about this constantly.

And so now it's become that I've realized that so many people on the other end of this, so many people are going, what did we disconnect from?