Marine Life Documentary Filmmaker Terry Lilley IS Everything Wild

Terry Lilley IS everything wild. As a biologist, endangered species manager, cinematographer, diver, activist, and wildlife advocate, Terry reflects philosophically about the interconnections of humans, animals, and nature.

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Today's guest is biologist, endangered species

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manager, cinematographer, diver activist, and advocate.

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Terry is able to educate and bring awareness to the changes to the

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coral reefs, wildlife populations, landscapes, and so much more.

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Terry's legacy is to bring not only awareness to the preservation of our

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natural world, but the active engagement by humans to save the environment.

Catherine:

Terry welcome to the show.

Catherine:

It's so good to see your smiling face over there in Hawaii.

Terry Lilly:

Aloha from Hawaii.

Terry Lilly:

Thank you for having me.

Terry Lilly:

It's nice to get up out of the water and dry out for a little while.

Catherine:

Well, I'm glad you're drying out here at your positive imprint and

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sharing, and you've already shared so much in the many, many years

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that you have worked with wildlife.

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And so I'm just thrilled to have you share with what is happening today

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and some of it certainly can be devastating news, but there's always hope.

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We always want to look for the positive and look for hope.

Terry Lilly:

Oh absolutely.

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You know, Catherine, I was very blessed as a little kid and I look

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back at it now and wow, why did I get such good parents that had me?

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When I was two years old, my father taught me to surf

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and I've been surfing ever since.

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When I was four years old, my father literally picked me up at

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the beach, place me in a pond with two, six foot long sharks and s...

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said,, swim around get to know 'em.

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They're your friends.

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And my mom and my dad, basically for my entire younger life

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let me live out in nature.

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And what that taught

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me, is a lot of positive things.

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And I say this a lot in my school classroom programs.

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As long as there's DNA left on earth and the earth is

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spinning, there is always hope.

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Mother nature will find a way and I live by that and really believe it.

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And my motto is very much oriented to firsthand observation.

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Yeah, it's one of the reasons why I like living in Hawaii because Hawaiian

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culture was built on firsthand observation for the last 1800 years.

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So I like to be in the water, be with the animals, be with the surf,

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learn from them, and then share those experiences, especially with

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the children in our local schools.

Catherine:

Well, that's so remarkable and definitely such a young

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age, which is your legacy, which is your parents' legacy, right?

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I don't have ocean obviously here in New Mexico, but we have the wilderness and

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I have so much enjoyed the time that my parents brought us out into the wilderness

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and taught us not just survival skills, but like you were saying, learning about

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the animals, the behavior, nature, mother nature, and how it affects,

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how it can affect us and how it does affect us in really everyday life.

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Many guests have said, everything is connected.

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I would hope that people take the opportunity to go out and be with nature.

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Learn and then go enjoy.

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Lots to be said for mother nature.

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What I like to teach everyone is looking at the earth as your own body.

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Okay.

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The earth is one big living, growing, changing organism.

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It's not a bunch of little parts like the African continent or Asian continent

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or Pacific ocean or Atlantic ocean.

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Those are simply parts to one single body.

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If you want to stay healthy as a human and you've cut off your

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finger, well, you might bleed so that may affect your heart.

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Okay.

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If you take drugs that ruin your brain, well, that's going to

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affect your bloodstream and your skin and your limb your ability

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to move and so forth and so on.

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Same with the earth.

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All of the oceans are interconnected with this flowing energy.

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This energy is interconnected with the energy on land and all the

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animals from the bumblebee to the hummingbird are directly connected to

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the dolphin, whale and sea turtles.

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And on earth, all of these energies are shared as one living single.

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And if you don't take care of heart of your body, the rest

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of your body's going to suffer.

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In the past 300, 400, 500 years in the human race they tried to look

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at the earth as little teeny parts.

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Okay.

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What are we doing in Africa?

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What are we doing in south America?

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What are we doing in the Himalayas?

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And what are we doing in the bottom of the ocean in the Pacific?

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But it doesn't work that way because everything's interrelated.

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Even in Kaua'i where I have my school classes, I have a class of

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12 year old kids in the class and I teach us interspecies communication.

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How do you get the phone number of a shark of a sea turtle and how you can be on

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land and call the animals and communicate and talk with them whenever you want to.

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Just like you could with your cell phone, talking to your friends

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on the other side of the country.

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And so being out and living with animals then in my storytelling and what I like

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to do more than anything is share how the animals behave, how they think, how they

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move, how they eat, how they reproduce and how that energy is connected with

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the rest of the energy on the planet.

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And I'm doing incredibly detailed studies.

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I just thought.

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From the sea of Cortez, the Gulf of California and Mexico doing

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a Marine life steady there.

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And the very same species of Marine life in the sea of Cortez

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also lives on the Galapagos islands, 3000 miles to the south.

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And we've now discovered that on surface currents all around the

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world, those same surface currents.

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The Hawaiian Sanders did to be able to take their baka sailing canoes

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and go from Tahiti to Hawaii.

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On these surface, currents are little slicks of water, fresh water, and they

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blow around the surface of the ocean.

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And in these slicks are eggs and larvae and babies of Marine life.

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So you may have a pollution problem in the sea of Cortez where they're

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killing certain species of dolphin

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and distinguishing other types of fish species, but what a lot of people don't

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realize that these animals reproduce and their babies may not hatch, or settle down

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to the seafloor until they get to Ecuador.

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There's currents across Northern California and Northern Pacific

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are going from north to south.

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Then we went down to Peru and there a humble current in Peru,

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that's going from south to north.

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And then we went to Indonesia and there a current in Indonesia

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going all the way across the Pacific to the Galapagos islands.

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So what we're even understanding now because of DNA studies that when you

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look at the Pacific ocean, all of these animals are intermixed and they all share

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energy and they all share the same DNA.

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And so as a populace on earth, we need to look at somewhere like the

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Pacific ocean as an entire body.

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What happens in one part of the Pacific is directly going to affect what happens

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in the rest of the Pacific ocean and through DNA, modern cameras, satellite

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imagery, underwater 4k movie cameras

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we now can make it really fun to teach all of this information to the school kids.

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They're not just going to the beach because uncle Terry wants them

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to learn about the reef below, where they surf that out here at

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Pipeline on the north shore of Oahu.

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They get to go to the beach and grab a drone helicopter and an underwater

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drone submarine and a movie camera

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and they get to go out with me and live with the animals and for themselves,

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see how interconnected we all are.

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And get to know these animals in a very personal way.

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Like you would, the dogs and cats in the neighborhood.

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So it's really fun.

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And the whole idea here is to teach kids to have fun, and then to

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have this very detailed learning.

Catherine:

Absolutely.

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I think if we can teach the interconnectedness then as children

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grow older, they look at the world around them with more mature eyes, an

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understanding that everything they do as well, and everything that humans do

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will connect to whatever is happening in the world, or can be the cause of

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whatever is happening in the world.

Catherine:

I think your words of teaching your words of wisdom are certainly spot

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for what we want to help provide as far as wisdom for the future in

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preservation.

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, when we were kids growing.

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And my dad was one of the surfers in California we didn't know what

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the surf was going to be like until we walked down the beach that day.

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There was no surf line, no forecasts, no weather forecast.

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So we really didn't know.

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Now, if you go in and watch professional surfing contest, anywhere in the world,

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they're monitoring the weather on the other side of the ocean and they're

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tracking storms off Japan or Tahiti or way on the other side of the Pacific to know

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when the surf is going to hit Hawai'i.

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So the young surfers right now and divers and younger kids are really realizing

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that, wow, our surf here in Hawaii is interconnected with the weather in Japan

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and the weather in the Philippines.

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And so they're starting to look at their earth through their eyes of

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surfing as being totally interconnected.

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So all of a sudden , if I want to go out and have some good waves and have

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a healthy beach just sit on in a pretty ocean in a coral reef, then I need to

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care about what's going on in Japan or the Pacific Northwest or Ecuador.

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And so this is the kind of learning right now that I've got 16,000

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hours with national geographic

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under water studying Marine life.

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Then going to 23 different countries around the world and studying marine life,

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talking with the animals that live under water in Indonesia and the Galapagos and

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The Bahamas, they all know each other.

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These animals around the world

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they know what the other one's doing, what the ocean is doing all around the planet,

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because their survival on earth that spins and weather changes and currents change,

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everything's changing all the time.

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Their survival is being able to connect with the other

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animals all around the world.

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Now it's not so strange.

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I'm connecting with you and you're in New Mexico and I'm in Hawaii.

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We don't even have the same time on our watch.

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But we're learning from each other.

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We're teaching each other.

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And we're understanding the world in a little bit better

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way by doing this podcast.

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So what I hope to through my movie series is to teach kids all

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around the world that they have that interconnection with nature.

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You're born with it.

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The kids understand computers.

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I say that everybody has their own password to the

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internet, infinite knowledge.

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You and me and every yeah, you and me and everybody on earth has their

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own internal password to know what the rest of the planet is doing.

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You can know what the whales are doing in the Pacific Northwest.

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You can know what the octopus is doing in Maui.

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You can know all about the intricacies of animals around the world, because you

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have an internal password to connect with that ultimate knowledge on this planet.

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And so teaching older people how to reconnect with nature and to redefine that

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internal password so they can do a better job at interconnecting with the planet.

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Kids automatically have that interconnection.

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So showing how to build on it, then we can turn the planet back into one functioning

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living system instead of a bunch of little parts that are being operated differently.

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That's going to be the future of saving our planet.

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You can't have the Chinese military practicing underwater microwave weaponry.

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And then the United States being off the Philippines and practicing

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underwater, laser torpedoes, these are all conflicting energy.

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That throws the earth out of balance, the dolphins and whales and sea turtles.

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And all the sharks are trying to tell people right now and show people we

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need to get back in balance with them.

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And we get that into this interconnection and start doing away with these man-made

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energies because they're very destructive.

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And so we have to get back into being taught by wildlife and the marine life

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on how to be better stewards of this planet.

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And when we do, I think we're going to find that everyone's

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going to be healthier.

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Everyone's going to be happier.

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We're being bombarded by 50,000 impulses, a second.

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Radio waves, microwave sound waves.

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All these transmissions humans are making.

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People are finding it harder and harder to meditate these days because of that.

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They're being bombarded by so many unnatural energies that breaks that

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connection between you, the earth, you and nature, you the ocean and

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you to the dolphin or the whale.

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It breaks the natural bonds and the natural communication

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between all living systems.

Catherine:

I had a guest on Andrew Bracken who works with farmers in

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Africa, and these farmers are having to figure out what types of seeds to plant.

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Well, my gosh, you've been planting seeds for hundreds of years.

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So what's the problem.

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The problem is climate change.

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The seeds that they've been planting don't work anymore.

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Climate change is causing this, yet those farmers have

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a minute carbon footprint.

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Right.

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And so, like you say that connectedness is breaking.

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The only way you're going to understand change

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is if you get immersed in it and become part of it.

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We did a study with Scripps Institute in Kauai, out at Tunnels

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a place I know you like to go to.

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It's called the acoustical footprint of the reef.

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we put this high-tech equipment out on the reef that recorded every

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sound on the reef for two weeks.

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3 trillion sounds in one little part of the reef in two weeks.

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We have the sound of the coral polyps talking to each other.

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We have the sound of the lobsters talking to the crabs.

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We have the sound of the sea urchins talking to the whales.

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So earth has been built on a lot of data, a massive amount of data.

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It's not just climate change in that word itself that is causing the disconnect.

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Climate change is very simple.

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Humans are causing earth changes to accelerate.

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These are changes been going on for billions of years, but they take a

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million years to happen versus a hundred.

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So the more humans cause an accelerated climate change, the more interconnected

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humans are going to have to be with their environment to deal with these changes.

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And there is no training scientifically, that's going to

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teach me how to deal with a change in any different part of the world.

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Everything is changing.

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The great white sharks are changing.

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The nudibranchs are changing.

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The crabs are changing.

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All the animals on earth are changing.

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So the only way we're going to deal with that is to go out, be with nature

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spend time to understand the changes, to know which direction to go.

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When certain seeds don't work anymore there's other seeds that are right there

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that are just ready to be planted in the ground that are going to grow like mad.

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If the coral reefs were healthy we have a sea level rise in Hawaii

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that's about a quarter of an inch maybe to a half an inch a year.

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Now the coral reef can grow at four to five inches a year..

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So as sea levels rise, if you understand the reef and you nurture it, the coral

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reef will rise and that will offset the problems with the sea levels cause a

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coral reef is mother nature's natural underwater, seawall, same with the kelp

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forest off California, Pacific Northwest.

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But the problem is, is that humans have lost their harmony with their coral reef.

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They've lost our harmony with the kelp forests.

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If there's a change happening then you can start assimilating and feeling

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those changes and know what to do.

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So humans have to grow up here as a bottom line.

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The whales lived on earth for 20 million years.

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They started in the ocean, they gravitated to the land and

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they went back to the ocean.

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And whales and dolphins

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they don't live as a single individual.

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They live in a harmonized as a group, all together, acting as one.

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That's why dolphins can heal each other.

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That's why one dolphin, a thousand miles away from the other

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dolphin knows that it's sick.

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That's why every dolphin in the pod knows when a female dolphin becomes pregnant

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because they all live and act as one.

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So when there's a change, they can harmonize with that change and figure

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out how to change along with it.

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The earth is not dying or falling apart.

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It's not going anywhere.

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We're enclosed in an atmosphere here.

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We're not losing parts of the earth up to Pluto.

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But we are creating all of these manmade and women made energies.

Catherine:

Aside from going out and sitting in nature what

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else can children and adults do who may not live near nature?

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They live in urban areas.

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What can they do to help the world to reconnect?

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That's a really, really great question.

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I've been all around the world.

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I've been to almost every continent on earth now and underwater

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and trying to figure that out.

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Nature is everywhere no matter where you are.

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I went to New York city.

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I did some interviews and some movies in downtown New York.

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You can sit up on the top of a apartment complex find nature very well.

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There's Paragon Falcons flying around in New York Senora.

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Uh, and nesting on top of the high rise buildings.

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So wherever you are at get outdoors and get away from electronics

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and spend some peaceful time.

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We're on electronics right now.

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It's doing something good with this podcast.

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We can't get away from electronics completely because that's

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how we communicate together.

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Okay.

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But you don't need to be calling your phone or texting your

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buddies 75,000 times a day.

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Put your phone down, go out in the ocean and say hello to a

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dolphin and a sea turtle and learn how to communicate naturally.

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We don't have to change the world.

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We do that by changing ourself.

Catherine:

Such words of wisdom.

Catherine:

I want to share something.

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We live in a really small part of New Mexico

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at the bottom of a huge, 10,000 foot peak.

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Of course, being in the mountains, we have deer bear, coyote,

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everything, and skunks.

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We have a skunk and adorable.

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I love him.

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So anyway, one year, many years ago, Our dog, we were sitting on the porch

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and we have, spindles on the porch and a doe came by with her twins.

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And the DOE walked up.

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Okay, honey, should we move the dog?

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No, just let's just let the animals do their thing.

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So the doe stuck her nose through the spindles and Maka went over and

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stuck her nose there and they talked and they licked and they touched.

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And then after that Maka walked down the stairs and she has twins.

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Deer will kill your dog.

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And she walked down the stairs and the doe left her twins with Maka.

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And then she just went under the tree a little bit farther away where she browsed.

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Every day that doe would come by and look for Maka.

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We'd let Maka out.

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And the dove would leave her, her fun.

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It is just incredible, whatever they said to each other.

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The beautiful thing about that, Catherine, animals out

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there interconnect with each other and they try to interconnect with humans.

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And it's the human that has put up that barrier, where they

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don't want to interconnect.

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And even over, you know, for the last thousands and thousands of years.

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Indigenous cultures learned how to use their third eye.

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They, they knew how to stay open to animal energies and how to connect with animals.

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So let's start learning from the animal world and let them re-teach us

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how to be in harmony on this planet.

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They've been here a lot longer than we have, and they've been very successful.

, Catherine:

such interesting, uh, outlook, of wisdom and

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positivity and hope.

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People often sit there and say, Terry, how do you keep such a good

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attitude with all of these problems?

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Well, you know what?

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Nine out of 10 times, I go scuba diving

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I see some of the most amazing creatures on earth.

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So the bottom line is, that I'm out there every day.

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90% of what I see on this planet is still incredibly

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beautiful, incredibly connected.

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And , you may see events that are happening that are really bad.

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I mean, they're bad.

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We got to deal with them.

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Storms, famine, drought, fires, hurricanes, all this kind of stuff.

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Uh, and they're increasing in numbers.

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That's obvious.

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Okay.

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But.

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You got to realize it's still 90% of the earth is incredibly beautiful.

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The animals are still in harmony with each other.

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And so we don't want to get overwhelmed with all the negatives and stop

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looking at all the positives.

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So it just it's it's up to all of us, you know?

Catherine:

Yes, yes, it is.

Catherine:

It is.

Catherine:

Terry, this has been inspiring and eyeopening because over the last several

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months I've have an eye issue and, and it's brought me down really bad.

Catherine:

So, but I, I love doing the podcast because people like you bring me back up

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and bring the positivity and hope back.

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And so.

Catherine:

What last inspiring words and you've been incredibly inspiring, but what last

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inspiring words do you want to share to help engage people to become active?

Terry Lilly:

That's a great question.

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And I can only just talk briefly about myself.

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Okay.

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I never tell anybody what to do or any of that kind of stuff.

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I just go out and do it.

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And hopefully they want to follow along because they see it's positive.

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, I almost died of a heart seizure a couple of years ago.

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Was pronounced dead.

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So I got electrocuted while scuba diving under a military ship

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using electromagnetic weapons.

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Um, so I was pronounced dead twice in my life with no chance of living.

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I've had hip surgery back surgery, neck surgery, uh, and about broken

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every bone in my entire body.

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And so today I got up early, I did look at the news.

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I did do some editing and.

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We're doing electronics on the podcast, but the second we get off

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I'm going for a scuba dive, and going to spend a couple hours under water.

Terry Lilly:

And then after that, hopefully I'll probably surf for a little while and

Terry Lilly:

then go out and watch the sunset and have a glass of wine on the beach.

Terry Lilly:

And by the end of the day, I like completely forgotten

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about all my problems.

Terry Lilly:

So if I could just ask people, if they would just put down the cell phone,

Terry Lilly:

put down the computer, go outdoors, sit in your garden and talk to the

Terry Lilly:

butterflies . You'll find really, truly that many of your problems that you

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have in life and illness will go away if

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you do that.

Terry Lilly:

And the harmony you create on that is going to help harmonize the planet so

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we can all build together a little bit better future for Mother Earth.

Catherine:

Terry Lilley, it has been a joy.

Catherine:

Next week's show is going to be again, Terry Lilley, we're going

Catherine:

to talk about his professional work under water around the world

Catherine:

his cinematography and Marine life.

Catherine:

Terry Lily, I can't wait to see you in Hawaii very soon.

Terry Lilly:

And thank you very much for having me on the show.

Terry Lilly:

It's really feels good to share little bits and information about nature.

Terry Lilly:

That's why I was kept alive on this planet.

Terry Lilly:

That's why I was born.

Terry Lilly:

The animals are talking through me to remind you on

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how to behave on this planet.

Terry Lilly:

And I'm just their voice

Catherine:

well, you are

Catherine:

a great voice and you are everything wild, wild in nature that is.

Catherine:

And thank you so much for bringing awareness to the changes around

Catherine:

the world, but also engagement and getting people active and educated

Catherine:

because advocacy is education.

Catherine:

. Yes.

Catherine:

Aloha, your positive imprint.

2 Comments

  1. Terry T on 12/21/2021 at 1:19 AM

    What an inspiring talk. I love our dear animals in this beautiful world. I’m so glad he spoke about talking to the animals. They really do hear and understand us.

    • Catherine on 01/04/2022 at 5:18 PM

      Terry, thank you so much for the comment. It is inspirational as well because I too think they can understand and hear us which gives me hope for the future if we do take care of them with positive actions. Thank you for listening!

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