自然、美與感恩

When I graduated UCLA， I moved to northern California， and I lived in a little town called Elk on the Mendocino coast. And I didn’t have a phone or TV， but I had U.S. mail. The life was good back then， if you could remember it. I didn’t have much money， but I had time and a sense of wonder.

I’ve been shooting 1）time-lapse flowers continuously， non-stop， 24 hours a day， seven days a week， for over 30 years. And to see them move is a dance I’ll never get tired of. Their beauty 2）immerses us with color， taste， touch. It also provides a third of the food we eat. Beauty and seduction is [sic] nature’s tools for survival， because we protect what we fall in love with. It opens our hearts， and makes us realize we are a part of nature and we’re not separate from it. When we see ourselves in nature， it also connects us to every one of us， because it’s clear that it’s all connected in one.

（In the “Happiness Revealed” project）

Child： When I watch TV， it’s just some shows that you just…that are pretend. And when you explore， you get more imagination than you already had. When you get more imagination， it makes you want to go deep so you can get more and see beautiful things， like， the path， if it’s a path， it could lead you to a beach or something， and it could be beautiful.

Elderly Man： Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open， that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment. Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment， with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather， and even with the weather， we don’t think of all the many 3）nuances of weather. We just think of good weather and bad weather. This day， right now， has unique weather， maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again. That formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same that is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.

These are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open your heart. And so I wish you…that you will open your heart to all these blessings， and let them flow through you， that everyone whom you will meet on this day will be blessed by you. Just by your eyes， by your smile， by your touch， just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you. And then， it will really be a good day.

從加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校畢業后，我搬到了加利福尼亞北部，在門多西諾海岸邊上的埃爾克小鎮生活。沒有電話，沒有電視，但我有美國郵政服務。如果你還記得的話，那年頭的日子其實蠻不錯的。我那時沒什么錢，但我有的是時間，對美好事物有一種敏銳的觸覺。

三十年來，我一直采用延時攝影技術拍攝花朵，每天24小時，每周七天，從無間斷。我看著花朵不斷變化，就像一支讓人百看不厭的舞蹈?；ㄖ雷屛覀兂磷碛谝粓錾省⑽兜琅c觸感的盛宴。我們還有三分之一的食材來自于花朵。美與誘惑正是自然界的生存利器，因為我們總會保護自己心愛的事物。自然之美能開啟我們的心門，讓我們意識到自己也是大自然的一份子，和大自然密不可分。我們看到自己身處其中，自然也會將我們每一個人聯結到一起，因為顯而易見的是，我們與自然本來就是一體的。

（“走近幸?！表椖科危?/p>

孩子：我看電視的時候，那上面只會演些你一看就……那些都是假的。而當你去探索的時候，你的想象力會比原來更豐富。當你的想象力豐富了，就會想進一步去了解，去發現更多東西，看到更美好的事物——比如一條路，如果這是一條路，它就能將你帶到沙灘之類的地方，那里也許會很美。

老人：從睜開雙眼開始，為自己目能視物感到驚喜吧，看著一系列不可思議的繽紛色彩給我們帶來多么純然的享受。看看天空吧。我們極少抬頭望天，極少注意到天空每時每刻都在變幻不同，云聚云散。