I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
I love all of the ecosystems – mountains, deserts, rainforests. They’re beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It’s very heavenly. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It’s the foundation of life on our planet. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they’re disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn’t tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography – so that means when you shoot a flower, you’re shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that’s basically two seconds of a film per day. Louie Schwartzberg Read Quote
