Just One Question | Craig Foster: Why am I Afraid of Nature?

Hello and welcome to Just One Question from Insights at the Edge. I'm Chris Rock. And I'm Mallory Corbin. We're producers at the Sounds True Podcast Network. We work with Tammy on Insights at the Edge to bring you transformational ideas from wisdom teachers around the world. And every week on this show, we pull out some of the most inspiring, most transformational ideas from those hundreds of conversations, and we bring them to you in the form of one question and one answer. Thus the name Just One Question. We hope you enjoy. Okay, Mallory, you're bringing this week's question, so what are we talking about? Before we get into it, I wanted to ask you a question.

I want to ask you just one question. So we're both from pretty outdoorsy states. I'm from Michigan and you're from Colorado. Do you consider yourself a very outdoorsy person? Think Yeah, I'd say so. Me too. I go hiking sometimes. But do you ever experience where you're so excited to go out into nature and you put your hiking boots on and then you're in it and you're like, wow, that's a lot of bugs. Or wow, that's a lot of mud. Yeah, true. Or is that a bear? Yeah, to yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. That is kind of what today's clip is sort of centered around. It's the strange paradox that humans have put themselves into where we're sort of part of nature and evolved from nature.

But we also have this kind of intrinsic fear of nature. And discomfort in it. Yeah, oh I love it. Okay. Yeah, so today we're featuring Craig Foster, who is uh the filmmaker and naturalist behind My Octopus Teacher.

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