ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker
Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images that celebrate life -- revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty.

Why you should listen

Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer whose career spans more than four decades of providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Schwartzberg's recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film, Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries of the Unseen World is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Schwartzberg also directed Soarin' Around the World, an international update to the original Soarin' ride now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai.

Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in early 2017.

Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Schwartzberg is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.

For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. "I hope my films inspire and open people's hearts," he says. "Beauty is nature's tool for survival -- we protect what we love. Nature's beauty can open hearts, and the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life."

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Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg: Narava. Lepota. Hvaležnost.

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Lepoto narave je lahko spregledati -- vendar ne skozi leče Louieja Schwartzberga. Njegovi osupljivi počasni posnetki v spremljavi mogočnih besed benediktinskega meniha, brata Davida Steindl-Rasta, služi kot meditacija za hvaležnost za vsak dan. (Posneto na TEDxSF.)
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When I graduateddiplomiral UCLAUCLA, I movedpreselil to northernseverno CaliforniaCalifornia,
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Po diplomi na UCLA sem se preselil
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and I livedživel in a little townmesto calledpozval ElkElk
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v majhno mestece po imenu Elk
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on the MendocinoMendocino coastObala,
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na obali Pacifika.
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and I didn't have a phonetelefon or TVTV, but I had U.S. mailpošta,
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Nisem imel telefona, ne televizije,
pošiljal pa sem pošto.
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and life was good back then, if you could rememberZapomni si it.
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Takrat je bilo življenje lepo,
če se spomnite tistih časov.
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I'd go to the generalsplošno storeshranite for a cupskodelico of coffeekava
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Šel sem na kavo, kolaček
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and a browniepiščanec, and I'd shipladja my filmfilm
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in poslal moj film v San Francisco.
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to SanSan FranciscoFrancisco, and lolo and beholdglej, two daysdnevi laterpozneje,
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In poglej, dva dni kasneje
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it would endkonec up on my frontspredaj doorvrata,
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se je pojavil pri mojih vhodnih vratih,
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whichki was way better than havingimeti to fightboj the trafficprometa
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kar je bilo bistveno bolje od vožnje
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of HollywoodHollywood. (MusicGlasba)
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po Hollywood-u v prometni konici.
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I didn't have much moneydenar,
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Nisem imel veliko denarja,
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but I had time and a sensesmisel of wonderčudno. (MusicGlasba)
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a imel sem čas in smisel za navdih.
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So I startedzačel shootingstreljanje time-lapsečasovni zamik photographyfotografija.
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Tako sem začel snemati počasne posnetke.
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It would take me a monthmesec to shootustrelil a four-minuteštiri minute
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V mesecu dni sem uspel posneti
štiri minute filma.
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rollroll of filmfilm, because that's all I could affordprivoščiti.
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To je bilo vse,
kar sem si lahko privoščil.
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I've been shootingstreljanje time-lapsečasovni zamik flowerscvetje continuouslystalno,
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Snemal sem počasne posnetke cvetlic,
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non-stopnon-stop, 24 hoursure a day, sevensedem daysdnevi a weekteden,
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nenehno, 24 ur na dan, sedem dni na teden,
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for over 30 yearslet, and to see them movePremakni se
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več kot 30 let. Opazovati jih,
kako se gibajo,
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is a danceples I'll never get tiredutrujen of.
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kot da plešejo.
Tega se ne morem naveličati.
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TheirNjihovega beautylepota immersespogreza us with colorbarva, tasteokus, touchdotaknite se.
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Lepota cvetlic nas očara
z barvami, okusom, dotikom.
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It alsotudi provideszagotavlja a thirdtretjino of the foodhrano we eatjesti.
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Cvetlice nam tudi zagotavljajo 1/3 hrane.
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(Glasba.)
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BeautyLepota and seductionzapeljevanje is nature'sNarava toolsorodja for survivalpreživetje,
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Lepota in zapeljevanje
sta orodji preživetja za naravo,
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because we protectzaščititi what we fallpadec in love with.
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ker ščitimo, v kar se zaljubimo.
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It opensse odpre our heartssrca, and makesnaredi us realizeuresničiti
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Ljubezen odpre naša srca
in prinaša spoznanje,
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we are a partdel of naturenarava and we're not separateločeni from it.
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da smo vsi del narave, ne ločeni od nje.
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When we see ourselvessami in naturenarava, it alsotudi connectspovezuje us
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Kadar se zedinimo z naravo,
se tudi povežemo
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to everyvsak one of us, because it's clearjasno
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med seboj. Postane nam jasno,
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that it's all connectedpovezan in one.
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da je vse povezano v eno.
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When people see my imagesslike, a lot of timeskrat they'lloni bodo say,
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Kadar ljudje vidijo moje posnetke,
pogosto izgovorijo:
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"Oh my God." Have you ever wonderedspraševal what that meantpomeni?
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"O, moj bog." Ste se kdaj vprašali,
kako to interpretirati?
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The "oh" meanssredstva it caughtujet your attentionpozornost,
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"O" izraža preskok pozornosti,
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makesnaredi you presentprisotni, makesnaredi you mindfulpozoren.
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vas osredotoči, aktivira razmišljanje.
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The "my" meanssredstva it connectspovezuje with something deepgloboko
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"moj" pomeni, da tematiko povežete
z nečim globoko
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insideznotraj your soulduša.
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v vaši duši.
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It createsustvarja a gatewayprehod for your innernotranji voiceglas to risevzpon up
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Ustvari vrata za vaš notranji glas,
da se povzdigne
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and be heardslišal. And "God"?
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in je slišan. In "bog"?
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God is that personalosebno journeypotovanje we all want to be on,
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Bog je tista osebna pot,
po kateri želimo vsi hoditi,
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to be inspirednavdihnjen, to feel like we're connectedpovezan to a universevesolje
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biti navdušen,
občutiti povezanost z vesoljem,
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that celebratespraznuje life.
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ki slavi življenje.
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Did you know that 80 percentodstotkov
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Ali ste vedeli, da 80 odstotkov
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of the informationinformacije we receiveprejeti comesprihaja throughskozi our eyesoči?
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informacij prejmemo skozi oči?
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And if you compareprimerjati lightsvetloba energyenergija to musicalglasbeni scalesluske,
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In če bi primerjali
svetlobno energijo z glasbo,
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it would only be one octaveOctave that the nakedgola eyeoči could see,
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bi golo oko lahko videlo samo eno oktavo,
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whichki is right in the middlesredi?
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tisto, ki je ravno na sredini?
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And aren'tne we gratefulhvaležen for our brainsmožgani that can, you know,
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Ali nismo hvaležni za naše možgane,
ki lahko sprejmejo
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take this electricalelektrični impulseimpulz that comesprihaja from lightsvetloba energyenergija
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električni signal, ki izhaja
iz svetlobne energije,
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to createustvarite imagesslike in orderred for us to exploreraziskati our worldsvet?
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da lahko ustvari sliko,
s katero raziskujemo naš svet?
Ali nismo hvaležni, da imamo srca,
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And aren'tne we gratefulhvaležen that we have heartssrca
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that can feel these vibrationsvibracije
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ki lahko čutijo te vibracije,
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in orderred for us to allowdovolite ourselvessami to feel the pleasureužitek
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da si lahko dovolimo uživati
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and the beautylepota of naturenarava?
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v lepoti narave?
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(Glasba.)
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Nature'sNarave beautylepota is a giftdarilo that cultivatesprideluje
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Lepota narave je dar, ki goji
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appreciationspoštovanje and gratitudehvaležnost.
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občudovanje in hvaležnost.
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(Glasba.)
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So I have a giftdarilo I want to sharedeliti with you todaydanes,
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Prinesel sem dar,
ki ga želim deliti z vami,
projekt, na katerem delam. Imenuje se
"Happiness Revealed" (Razkrita sreča).
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a projectprojekt I'm workingdelo on calledpozval HappinessSreče RevealedPokazala,
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and it'llto bo give us a glimpsepogled into that perspectiveperspektive
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Naj vam pokažem delček nazora
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from the pointtočka of viewpogled of a childotrok and an elderlystarejši man
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iz vidika otroka in starca
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of that worldsvet.
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o tem svetu.
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ChildOtrok: When I watch TVTV,
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Deklica: Kadar gledam televizijo
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it's just some showskaže that you just -- that are pretendpretvarjati se,
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so to samo oddaje, ki jih --
kjer se pretvarjajo.
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and when you exploreraziskati, you get
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Kadar pa raziskuješ,
dobiš več domišljije, kot si je že imel.
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more imaginationdomišljijo than you alreadyže had,
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and when you get more imaginationdomišljijo,
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Ko dobiš več domišljije,
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it makesnaredi you want to go deepergloblje in
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te to spodbudi iti globlje,
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so you can get more and see beautifullerbeautifuller things,
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da lahko dobiš še več
in vidiš lepše stvari.
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like the pathpot, if it's a pathpot, it could leadsvinec you to a beachplaža,
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Kot pot, če je pot, lahko te vodi na obalo
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or something, and it could be beautifullepo.
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ali kam drugam in lahko bi bilo čudovito.
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(Glasba.)
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ElderlyStarejših Man: You think this is just anotherdrugo day in your life?
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Starec: Misliš, da je to samo še en dan
v tvojem življenju?
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It's not just anotherdrugo day. It's the one day that is givendan to you
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Ni samo še en dan.
To je dan, ki ti je podarjen
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todaydanes.
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danes.
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It's givendan to you. It's a giftdarilo.
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Podarjen ti je. Je darilo.
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It's the only giftdarilo that you have right now,
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Je edino darilo, ki ga imaš prav danes
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and the only appropriateprimerno responseodziv
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in edini primeren odziv
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is gratefulnesshvaležnost.
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je hvaležnost.
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If you do nothing elsedrugače but to cultivatenegovanje that responseodziv
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Če ne narediš nič drugega,
kot da gojiš takšen odziv
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to the great giftdarilo that this uniqueedinstven day is,
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do tega darila, kar je ta edinstven dan,
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if you learnučiti se to respondodgovoriti
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če se naučiš odzvati,
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as if it were the first day in your life
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kot da je prvi dan tvojega življenja
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and the very last day,
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in čisto zadnji dan,
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then you will have spentpreživel this day very well.
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potem si ta dan porabil zelo dobro.
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BeginZačeli by openingodprtje your eyesoči and be surprisedpresenečen
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Začni z odpiranjem oči in bodi presenečen,
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that you have eyesoči you can openodprto,
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da imaš oči, ki jih lahko odpreš,
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that incredibleneverjetno arrayarray of colorsbarve that is constantlynenehno offeredponujen to us
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da obstajajo neverjetne barve,
ki so nam nenehno ponujene
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for purečisto enjoymentužitek.
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za čisti užitek.
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Look at the skynebo.
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Poglej v nebo.
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We so rarelyredko look at the skynebo.
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Tako redko pogledamo v nebo.
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We so rarelyredko noteOpomba how differentdrugačen it is
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Tako redko opazimo, kako raznoliko je
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from momenttrenutek to momenttrenutek, with cloudsoblaki comingprihajajo and going.
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od trenutka do trenutka.
Oblaki prihajajo in odhajajo.
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We just think of the weathervreme,
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Razmišljamo samo o vremenu
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and even with the weathervreme, we don't think of
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in celo pri vremenu ne razmišljamo
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all the manyveliko nuancesnianse of weathervreme.
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o vseh podrobnostih.
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We just think of good weathervreme and badslab weathervreme.
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Vreme ocenjujemo samo kot lepo vreme
in slabo vreme.
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This day, right now, has uniqueedinstven weathervreme,
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Ta dan, pravkar, ima edinstveno vreme,
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maybe a kindvrste that will never exactlytočno
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morda takšno vreme, ki se natančno takšno
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in that formobrazec come again.
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ne bo nikoli več ponovilo.
Postavitev oblakov na nebu ne bo nikdar
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That formationoblikovanje of cloudsoblaki in the skynebo will never be the sameenako
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enaka, kot je sedaj.
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as it is right now.
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Odpri oči. Poglej tole.
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OpenOdprta your eyesoči. Look at that.
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Look at the facesobrazi of people whomkoga you meetsrečati.
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Poglej obraze ljudi, ki jih srečaš.
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EachVsak one has an incredibleneverjetno storyzgodba behindzadaj theirnjihovi faceobraz,
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Vsak obraz ima neverjetno zgodbo,
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a storyzgodba that you could never fullyv celoti fathomdognanj,
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zgodbo, ki je ne moreš
nikoli popolnoma dojeti,
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not only theirnjihovi ownlastno storyzgodba, but the storyzgodba of theirnjihovi ancestorspredniki.
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ne samo njihovo lastno zgodbo,
temveč tudi zgodbo njihovih prednikov.
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We all go back so fardaleč,
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Vsi imamo preteklost
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and in this presentprisotni momenttrenutek, on this day,
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in v tem trenutku, na ta dan,
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all the people you meetsrečati, all that life from generationsgeneracije
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vsi ljudje, ki jih srečaš,
vsa življenja prednikov
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and from so manyveliko placesmesta all over the worldsvet
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in iz vseh koncev sveta
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flowstokove togetherskupaj and meetsizpolnjuje you here
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se stekajo in te srečajo
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like a life-givingdaje življenje watervoda, if you only openodprto your heartsrce and drinkpijte.
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kot voda, ki daje življenje,
če le odpreš srce in piješ.
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OpenOdprta your heartsrce to the incredibleneverjetno giftsdarila that civilizationcivilizacija
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Odpri srce za neverjetne darove,
ki nam jih daje civilizacija.
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givesdaje to us.
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You flipflip a switchstikalo and there is electricelektrični lightsvetloba.
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Obrneš stikalo in tu je
električna svetloba.
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You turnobrat a faucetpipa and there is warmtoplo watervoda and coldhladno watervoda,
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Odpreš pipo in tu je topla voda
in hladna voda
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and drinkablepitna watervoda.
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in pitna voda.
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It's a giftdarilo that millionsmilijoni and millionsmilijoni in the worldsvet
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To je dar, ki ga milijoni ljudi
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will never experienceizkušnje.
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ne bodo nikoli doživeli.
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So these are just a fewmalo of an enormousogromno numberštevilka of giftsdarila
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Tukaj je samo nekaj
od ogromne količine darov,
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to whichki we can openodprto your heartsrce.
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katerim lahko odpreš svoje srce.
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And so I wishželim you that you will openodprto your heartsrce
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Želim ti, da odpreš svoje srce
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to all these blessingsblagoslove, and let them flowtok throughskozi you,
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vsem blagoslovom in naj tečejo skozi tebe,
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that everyonevsi whomkoga you will meetsrečati on this day
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da blagosloviš vsakogar,
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will be blessedblagoslovljen by you,
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ki ga srečaš ta dan
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just by your eyesoči,
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s svojimi očmi,
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by your smilenasmeh,
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s svojim nasmehom,
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by your touchdotaknite se,
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z dotikom,
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just by your presenceprisotnost.
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samo s svojo prisotnostjo.
09:05
Let the gratefulnesshvaležnost overflowprekoračitev
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Naj hvaležnost prekipi
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into blessingblagoslov all around you,
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v blagoslov vsega okrog tebe
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and then it will really be a good day. (MusicGlasba)
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in potem bo zagotovo dober dan. (Glasba.)
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
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LouieLouie SchwartzbergSchwartzberg: Thank you.
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Louie Schwartzberg: Hvala.
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Thank you very much. (ApplauseAplavz)
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Najlepša hvala. (Aplavz)
Translated by Simon Tutek
Reviewed by Nika Kotnik

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker
Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images that celebrate life -- revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty.

Why you should listen

Louie Schwartzberg is a cinematographer, director and producer whose career spans more than four decades of providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Schwartzberg's recent theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film, Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic, narrated by Forest Whitaker, and the documentary Wings of Life for Disneynature, narrated by Meryl Streep. Mysteries of the Unseen World is a journey into invisible worlds that are too slow, too fast, too small and too vast for the human eye to see, while Wings of Life focuses on pollination and the web of life. Schwartzberg also directed Soarin' Around the World, an international update to the original Soarin' ride now showing at Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando and Shanghai.

Designed to inspire, educate and evolve our perspective on the world, Schwartzberg creates and curates Moving Art videos, which can be found on your smart phone and Netflix. The Moving Art series will be expanded from six to thirteen videos in early 2017.

Schwartzberg's Gratitude Revealed series of shorts were launched on Oprah.com. Supported by the Templeton Foundation, with science and analytics by the Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley, the series explores the multifaceted virtues of gratitude. Schwartzberg is the first filmmaker to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.

For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can have a positive effect on the future of the planet. "I hope my films inspire and open people's hearts," he says. "Beauty is nature's tool for survival -- we protect what we love. Nature's beauty can open hearts, and the shift in consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life."

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