Totally get that! I remember sitting by a river one day, and it was like all my worries just faded away. Sometimes, just being in nature is the best therapy.
When I was a little kid about four, five years old, I pushed a concrete pillar over and it hit me on the head. And I think that might have affected my outlook in my favoritiveness. I'm 70 kilometres from the nearest town. They thought I was crazy. Not bad. How can you live on your own out there? Oh, I'm quite happy. When I arrived out here, it was difficult times for me. Things that happened in my life. My dad died, my mom died, my father reload died, my gut divorced. It was an art man. It all happened in a very, very short period of time. I was on a different planet. At the end of that very short period of internal drama, everybody said, you need to see a psychologist. And I said, no, I'm not he'd sorted out. I needed to be alone to get my head around what I'd gone through. I ended up here in this wilderness environment. You know, the career is a special place. It's got a silent, it's deafening. The stars at night are just unsupposable because of the clarity of the air. This kind of environment, it works. It gives back something. I didn't realise how it's going to fix myself at you. And it's taken me a long time to get through it, and nature has been the one that pulled me through it. At least that's where I see it. Having had that dramatic part in my life and having come out of it, I think with a smile on my face, I can't help but say, you know, maybe this is the answer. This is why we need all of this. I can be in a bad mood because I've got out of the wrong side of the bed. The walk outside and then a bird-class post. Within five minutes of midnight, I've come down. You're moving out of your bad mood. That's the kind of thing that happens out there. You can't believe what it does to you. People come out here with their cell phones and things and then you watch this change take place. Given three days, the cell phones forgot about. They're looking at each other, they're walking all over the place, and they go back better people. Nature does that for you. The man is crazy. We try and make the world fit what we think it should be instead of trying to fit into the world. You've got to start looking at the plants. You look at the succulents. You look at the insects. Every single thing is interrelated. We need those things in order to stay human. Man is not a special creature. He's part of nature. We share, we're part of the universe. The world in the spins of Latamia, I want to sit remain like it is. But I want to see my grandchildren being able to appreciate it. I don't want it to be destroyed. If I had a much like I'd said to everybody in their lives, it's been 20 days in the crew on their own. Let go back to different people. I don't think there's any doubt about it. It's changed me yes. Thanks to all of you who helped make this film possible. All of our films are totally crowd-funded. So if you'd like to continue to support us on our journey, check out our Green Renaissance page on Patreon.
That moment when they say nature can heal is so true. I’ve felt it too, like when I hiked alone in the mountains and suddenly everything just clicked.