Louie Schwartzberg Quotes

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

I like to do films that celebrate life.

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it’s the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It’s the foundation of life on our planet.

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It’s very heavenly.

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature’s ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

We’re giants, and we’re unaware of things that are too small for us to see.