How can we reconnect with nature?
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About the video: ‘How can we reconnect with nature?’
Julia talks about humanity’s disconnect from nature and how we are part of nature’s system, not above or beyond it. She talks about the principals that guide her life as she works to remind people of this. Life for her is about service and integrity. Where privilege is enjoyed this is all the more important.
Total views: 5,531
Filmed: New York City, USA on 22 April 2005
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2005 Big Picture TV
About Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill is an American campaigner and environmental activist.
She is well known for living in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997 to December 18, 1999, in order to prevent loggers of the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down.
She is the author of the book “The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods”(2001) and co-author of One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World” (2002).
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