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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.04,0:00:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are you doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.12,0:00:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright. It's very good to be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.54,0:00:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make some noise if you love oxygen,\Nladies and gentlemen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.28,0:00:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.50,0:00:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.78,0:00:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody in here likes\Nto breathe, so do I.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.43,0:00:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a compulsive habit,\NI do it everyday.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.02,0:00:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Personally, I believe that a poet\Nshould have a sense of beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.19,0:00:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a comedian has a sense of humor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.47,0:00:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sense meaning the faculty to detect.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.89,0:00:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I can't think of anything\Nmore beautiful than the source of beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.78,0:00:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is this planet that we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.03,0:00:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give it up for the biggest rock star\Non Earth, the Earth herself. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.97,0:00:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.54,0:00:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ancient people referred\Nto nature as Gaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.40,0:00:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I wrote a poem to Her\Nlike I would write a poem to my woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.53,0:01:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love her so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.43,0:01:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.96,0:01:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This poem is called 'Garden of the Gaiah'.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.53,0:01:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a car that runs off of air,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.31,0:01:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- true story -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.63,0:01:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it weighs less than 1,000 pounds,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.55,0:01:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its only emission is cleaner air.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.42,0:01:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I drive a frickin' used Buick LeSabre.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.27,0:01:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was more handsome
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.62,0:01:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the more 'fuel-efficient' car\Nthat I could have bought,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.55,0:01:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but its paint job had this feature\Nthat deflected women away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.06,0:01:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made a choice.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.72,0:01:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like many, I wished \Nin my will to do good,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.82,0:01:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least, half the size\Nof my carbon footprint.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.43,0:01:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like this big massive boot\Nsize 7 billion and counting,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.68,0:01:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with enough weight that can stamp out\Ncreatures bigger than we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.92,0:01:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We turn the rubber and the soles\Ninto erasers for names like
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.00,0:01:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Balaena mysticetus - the bowhead whale,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.75,0:01:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Panthera Leo persica - the Asiatic lion,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.12,0:01:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pongo pygmaeus morio -\Nthe golden orangutan.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.67,0:02:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could we be so certain these\Nare not sentient, intelligent beings,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.09,0:02:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when 300 years ago, if you wanted\Nto hear me read a poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.77,0:02:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'd have made me do it\Nfrom the inside of a cage?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.02,0:02:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My, how times have changed!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.87,0:02:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The culture, not as drastic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.91,0:02:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not surprising that the same mind\Nthat invented chain smoking
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.09,0:02:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now burning down the rainforest.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.06,0:02:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a cliche part,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.27,0:02:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if for every time you put down a pack,\Nanother acre grew back,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.38,0:02:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would it be enough to make you quit?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.10,0:02:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there, is the growing pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.96,0:02:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't make nicotine patches\Nfor a logging addiction
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.82,0:02:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the environment ends up\Ngetting it worse than the rubber tree
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.95,0:02:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gave its life to make\Nthe latex in your condoms.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.54,0:02:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we don't touch the Earth anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.44,0:02:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When's the last time the dirt underneath\Nyour fingernails was actually soil?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.09,0:02:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was little, I had a garden,\Nand my parents forced me to see
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.28,0:02:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that loving the planet is a lot easier\Nwhen it's not something
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.25,0:02:48.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are afraid to actually\Nput your hands inside of.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.13,0:02:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For every surface in this world,\Nthere was a creature created to love it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.62,0:02:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of all these tiny creatures,\Nmy favorite were the bees.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.43,0:02:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, to a bee, a garden's a city\Nwhere the skyscrapers grow out the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.17,0:03:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every level is\Nan all-you-can-eat food court.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.76,0:03:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With wings like jetpacks,\Nin the absence of elevators,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.84,0:03:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when they puke,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.02,0:03:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's something you'd actually want\Nto put on your Cheerios.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.90,0:03:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.20,0:03:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who's the superior species?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.77,0:03:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see them try their hand\Nat Guitar Hero.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.37,0:03:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the most beautiful part\Nof a bee is its stinger
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.41,0:03:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it only gives it one shot\Nto harm another being,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.13,0:03:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at that point,\Nit must sacrifice its life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.33,0:03:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you sacrifice yourself\Nto protect the same pine tree
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.22,0:03:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that died to make the deck of your patio?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.28,0:03:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least when you shelter a tree,\Nyou get to stay alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.100,0:03:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What could we learn\Nif we allowed them to breathe?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.44,0:03:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because one day, I want\Nto write poetry as perfect as the way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.44,0:03:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God writes water\Ninto the veins of a leaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.80,0:03:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last October, I saw a maple\Nthat autumn turned so red
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.55,0:03:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looked like a sculpture\Nof a frozen flame.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.81,0:03:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I stared at it so hard\Nthat its bark grew from my pores
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.69,0:03:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this tree is what I became.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.46,0:03:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was only gone for a second,\Nbut I came back with a message:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.40,0:03:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trees speak with their roots,\Nand what they had to tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.35,0:03:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we are all tiny creatures\Nin the Garden of the Gaiah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.42,0:03:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our cities are stone sculptures\Nthat hold the heavens up
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.11,0:04:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the mountains\Nwould no longer suffice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.33,0:04:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are one consciousness shift away
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.08,0:04:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from turning this Earth\Ninto a technological Eden,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.30,0:04:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the air car that I want\Ndoesn't float above my pay grade.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.07,0:04:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you want to save this planet?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.80,0:04:14.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Start by appreciating what's left of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.29,0:04:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just know that the grass always knew\Nthat you were a Guitar Hero
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.44,0:04:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because since you were a child, it's been\Nletting you crowd-surf on its hands
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.53,0:04:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you looked up to the sky\Nand began to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.17,0:04:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are just a tiny creature\Nwho would cease to exist
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.14,0:04:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this garden ever ceased to keep giving.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.93,0:04:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.37,0:04:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)