John Francis: I walk the Earth
www.ted.com For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 10 of those years without speaking). A funny, thoughtful talk with occasional banjo.
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I love this guy!! Although a bike would have been awesome lol!
great speech.
is that a real song he was playing @ the beginning, or a jam? i like it.
lol indeed
incredible… for 20 minutes i just couldnt take my eyes off the screen. DAMN!
Awesome story! Wish i had the courage to do something like that.
I surely hope so!
Wow, this guy has lived the life most of us dream of… or do in retirement. Well, with the talking.
i needed to hear this message. it touched me more strongly than anything I have ever listened to in my life.
Grok
whats the point…
hes saying that, the way to make people start caring about the enviroment is to make them care about eachother, however hard that may be.
If you think of us as indifferent to eachother, we use pollution and ignorance of the damage as a metaphorical attack on eachother. We dont care about how we damage eachother, hence we dont care that we are polluting and harming eachother
Another beautiful speaker on this subject of treatent of ourselves an others is World Peace Diet.
this is so heavy! thank you!
john francis=pimp
i saw him at the wilcox presentation 10/7/09! i asked him to sign my chest!
Instead of voting you down like a lot of other people, I think that’s a valid question. What is the point? Well, I’d say to try and consider how ‘life would be like’ if people were to take his approach, but I too have the same skepticism. Why live for anyone but yourself? Giving to yourself, in my opinion; is essential, before you can give to others. It’s really not up to anyone else but you to come up with the ‘point’ of changing. No one else can convince you to change, it’s up to you.
My name is John Francis. :P
this guys book is awesome. i heard their gonna make a movie about it and will smith is gonna play him. anyone know if their is any truth beind this?
i hope there’s no movie. that would totally ruin the message. Hollywood’s perversion would corrupt the inspiration to be activists and to be free. Listen and be quiet. WOW GOOD STORY. Thank you for the vid.
What a great speaker. This guy is amazing, you can’t help but listen and like him.
Keep spreading your message, John!
T-HOOPES.
Truly inspiring.
Rosanella :-)
Thank you John Francis. You have changed me.
Saw him in Minneapolis at the U of MN. Great, great storyteller and speaker, especially live. And of course, the banjo sounds better live as well – the video camera narrows and distorts the audio. I own the book now, it kicks ass. That’s my two cents!
Same here.