- Sometimes I think how come I can't feel the world moving?

I know the sun isn't really moving, we're moving.

Nature is clearly the force here.

There's people around and you see people, but the experience I have out here is not of people, it's of place.

It's of land and water and sky.

(soft music) I grew up in West Palm Beach in the 60s and 70s, and Florida was still pretty wild then.

The first thing I'd do every morning was go outside.

I just realized I felt more at ease being outdoors.

There was something about the outdoors that felt like home to me.

I still feel nourished by it all.

I like to tell people, I'm an 85/85 person.

I feel good when it's 85 degrees with 85% humidity.

Then my body starts to really feel good.

I think we're genetically acclimated to live in certain places.

And now we just have so much mobility that people can go wherever.

And so I don't think we stop to think about, is our body really happy here?

We're disconnected from ourselves, we're disconnected from each other, and we're disconnected from the Earth.

So I think at the foundation, how do we heal that?

And how do we reconnect with ourselves?

This is a cooperative collaborative model of community garden where... we garden together collectively, and we harvest together collectively.

Biodiverse gardens are gonna be important in climate change because they can pivot better.

It's hard to see that we've moved away from understanding how the Earth works.

And not trying to work in concert with the Earth, but thinking we can push our will onto the Earth, and make it do what we want it to do.

In a society that's really grown increasingly impatient, you need awareness that nature has its own timeline, and if you try to rush it, sometimes things don't go well.

I moved back here 12 years ago, and I've been in the middle of three to four hurricanes, which is interesting.

I spent 15 years growing up here and I remember one major hurricane.

There's so many unpredictable, natural events right now.

People think about climate change, we think about storms in Florida, and so how do we adapt to that?

There's just a lot of difficult conversations taking place right now in Florida.

How do we do this?

What are we gonna do?

Part of why people don't wanna leave in certain places is you've got your community, and you don't wanna lose that community.

Part of the sense of place has to do with the community.

In America, we're really cultivated to say: "Let's be American, let's be American, "It's great to be American!"

But does that mean we can't like other people?

Why don't we help our neighbors except in emergencies?

What's happened?

There's a meanness that's happening in our society that's really hard for me and it's... ...it's profound in Florida.

One of my friends wouldn't even travel to Florida because of the politics.

And that was hard.

Most people in Florida are not like that.

They care about their neighbors, and care about their communities.

How do we think about the next generation?

What are we gonna wanna look back on 30 years from now, or 100 years from now, wish we had done differently?

At one point, the side by side spaces here in Florida were all covered by water.

This was all the sea, and... ...probably will be again at some point.

Every time I come over those bridges.

and I see the Gulf, I could just exhale.

When I see the Gulf, I know who I am, and I know what I belong to.

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