#735: Craig Foster of My Octopus Teacher — How to Find the Wild in a Tame World

Craig Foster is an Oscar- and BAFTA-winning
filmmaker, naturalist, author, and ocean explorer. He is the
co-founder of the Sea Change Project, an NGO dedicated to the
long-term conservation and regeneration of the Great African
Seaforest. His film My Octopus Teacher has led to making the
Great African Seaforest a global icon. His new book is
Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame
World. 


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Timestamps:


[00:00] Start


[08:39] A morning ray.


[11:01] Connecting with the sea is a family tradition.


[13:24] Making The Great Dance.


[15:28] Unnatural powers granted by natural attunement.


[22:40] Observing the secret lives of animals.


[26:44] What makes Kalahari trackers so impressive?


[29:37] Connecting with nature in the big city.


[32:43] Breath holding and cold exposure.


[37:25] Land lessons via underwater tracking.


[42:55] Connecting with a Cape clawless otter.


[46:20] Interspecies alliances.


[49:39] What compelled Craig to write Amphibious Soul?


[52:58] Why pristine nature comforts and inspires us.


[1:00:03] Is ancestral memory real?


[1:04:16] Nature as a mirror.


[1:07:48] The pros and cons of discovering new species.


[1:10:03] Song catching.


[1:16:30] The meaning of “home.”


[1:19:03] Parenting lessons.


[1:23:41] The psychic cost of sudden fame.


[1:31:18] For whom was Amphibious Soul written?


[1:33:58] Sea Change Project.


[1:35:53] The short-sightedness of current climate policy.


[1:41:52] Changing entrenched minds.


[1:52:37] A camera-stealing octopus.


[1:55:25] Hope for a shift in human perspective.


[1:58:21] Parting thoughts.


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