The Salt of the Earth Page #6

It was just barren land. They did not know what to do with that.

Birds, alligators and forests had disappeared.

There was no childhood memories of Sebastiao.

Then Llia had a surprising idea.

Why we not replant the forest that was here before?

The forest that was here before and that covered these hills

It was the Atlantic Forest.

The Atlantic forest.

No one had tried to replant.

Let alone over 600 hectares.

The suggestion came from his desire Llia

to maintain the spirit of the family.

Anyway, they started using them

and for the next 10 years

what happened in that land was a miracle

which it became, from that moment, the "Terra Institute".

I remember during the first planting,

sometimes dreamed that night was dying all.

Because the soil was horrible. He was in such bad shape

I wondered. Are the plants take root?

In the Atlantic Forest there were 400 different species,

we did not have 400,

but just we planted 100 species, 150 ...

It is true that the first planting lost 60%.

In the second, 40.

There were no books to teach to replant an Atlantic forest.

I love coming here

to see all these trees together.

When you see this forest mass,

an idea of ??the effort involved in planting all this is done.

When I was little,

there was a small waterfall.

All year, here was a waterfall that fell.

I came with my sisters and we made a picnic under the jump.

There was still a lot of forest.

Then

when felled trees, the water disappeared.

Now our forest is young, needs lots of water.

But within 10 or 15 years, when everything stabilizes,

I'm sure it will reappear another beautiful waterfall.

They are

many small roads,

hundreds of small ways ...

Cows go there.

Each leg of cow that sits on a small perimeter,

They are 200 or 250 kilos of blow.

Crushes the earth, the dry,

and no longer sprout again nothing.

It is very interesting to note the difference

of what it was before the Terra Institute, smooth pastures like this

and the other a fully recovered ecosystem.

With ten million trees replanted.

Here we see

cicada singing until he dies.

I'm sure it was not the tree.

Are the termites that are assimilating.

He will be buried here.

Sometimes, just we look at a tree and think about its verticality, in its beauty.

But everything depends on it, our water, our oxygen ...

It is home to everyone.

Ants, small insects, cicadas ...

All are in the tree.

It is very pleasant to touch a tree planting have helped.

It is here, well established, well robust.

Within 30 years it will be as well.

He is still very young, is growing.

Look, the youngest there, very young, here.

They may have erupted tonight,

like Alice entering the wonderland.

And most incredible is that it will become a tree 40 to 50 meters.

And who will live 400 years, 500 years.

Here there is a great power.

Think that these trees have three months

and will reach its climax at the 400 ...

Maybe we can measure from here

the concept of eternity.

Perhaps eternity can be measured.

The first few days after saying: "We will plant a forest"

I thought the route was a seed to a small tree, a plant ...

and that's it, but there is only a little plant, but a million.

And not just here.

Also nearby. And more and more!

And that's the most wonderful thing, this idea

You may evolve, it can grow.

He's not someone's idea, but of all.

Sampling method can replicate almost everywhere.

Of course, the species are not the same,

but the way of acting is the same

in all tropical forests.

The land was the remedy to despair of Sebastiao.

The joy of seeing the trees grow, resurgent outbreaks,

He resurrected Sebastiao passion for photography.

Although Llia and he knew they could not return to their old ways.

We conclude

that would start a new photographic project on the environment.

Of course, the first idea that came

It was to denounce the destruction of forests,

or pollution of the oceans,

He did not care.

Then gradually we start thinking. Let's do a different project.

Let a tribute to the planet.

And we discover with surprise

nearly half of the planet

continues as the day of Genesis.

Many of my friends told me. "Do not get into that.

It is very risky. You are a good human, social photographer,

and now you will enter in the field

Photographers landscapes, animals. "

I said, "It's okay, I'm going for it!

I will learn to photograph these things too. "

And so I began the first story.

Galapagos wanted it.

Darwin wanted to understand what he understood.

The same species,

in very different ecosystems,

They have evolved very differently.

Looking at this detail of the leg of the iguana,

I can not help thinking

in the hand of a warrior of the Middle Ages.

With its metal to protect shells.

Looking at the structure of the hand,

I see that the iguana is also my cousin,

who we come from the same cell.

We were facing a being of this age.

We are dealing with an authority,

with all its wrinkles, with all this knowledge.

Certainly, when Darwin was here, that turtle was an adult.

Maybe he saw Darwin. Who knows?

I remember one time I was very tired

because he had walked through lava fields for a long time.

I had slept on the beach.

I felt something touch my leg.

I looked and it was a sea lion.

Had another installed across.

In the end, there were three sea lions.

No man considered a predator, did not seem a threat.

It was my first story of nature,

the first time photographing animals.

For 8 years, I had time to see ...

and understand the most important thing.

I am very nature as a turtle, like a tree,

like a stone.

His gaze remains extraordinary.

It is very deep.

I was up to me, I took a picture,

he put his finger in the mouth ...

He was looking for the first time in a mirror.

I was in front of him

and he removed his finger, put it.

He began to understand that it was him.

It was acknowledging his image. I felt completely identified.

It's a family like ours,

a grandfather, a father, children.

They will respect each other, you know?

And when you go, you have to respect their ways.

You have to sit in a particular way,

you have to respect their territory.

And then you receive.

I also became friends with a whale.

These are whales.

In Argentina.

An adult as this measures 35 meters and weighs 40 tons, more or less.

He was approaching, came to the ship.

I could touch it.

And it was amazing. That skin so sensitive!

While he is stroking,

He saw his tail shaking, at 35 meters.

A phenomenal sensitivity.

We had a small vessel of not more than seven meters.

I knew that if we looked strong, we could sink.

But he never touched the boat, never!

Sometimes he walked away and hit the sea with its tail.

Oh, it's another world, it's incredible.

I'll see if I have another photo here of the Nenets.

Check what does a Nenets.

It's your house.

I nenets this report with what was preparing a long time.

Were 18 people and about 6,000 reindeer

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