Werner Herzog on Nature...

[falgiano]

I find his view interesting, but I don't think I can fully agree. Nature may be filled with obscenity and murder but it above all (in my mind) it is lush with life. Everything is alive. The animals, insects and plants that die are always replaced by more life. Even in the harshest climates life fights the odds. Any kind of fixed paradise that removed competition from survival would have no differentiation between joy and suffering and could be said to hellish in its indifference instead.

[jlarry1]

werner herzog is a hard man.

[groundup1979]

Burden of Dreams. Amazing!

Give it up to Les Blank

[xTimmaex]

his movies are good but his views here are only typical for someone with a western mindset who doesn't understand why things in the jungle are happening and how everything is connected. of course it's easier to say everything is cruel and senseless than looking closer at it and seeing the links.

[Rhademanthus]

No, he understands it all very clearly. He sees it as a harmony. Just a discordant one.

[xmfdibujito]

@xTimmaex Oh, and the eastern mindset understand that? I make my meditations, know about Hindu, Tao, etc.

But Herzog has a very interesting point of view. And c´mon, the Buddhists are more "negative" , they said ""life is suffering". Herzog says: fight motherfucker!!!

[apexxxx10]

Bla, bla, blahhhh...

[mowshowitz]

I love how he says "growing" at 0:19 like it's filthy.

[gambonbon]

I've watched this a few times now and it becomes more hilarious with each viewing, the delivery is perfect, morbidly serious, the best line is without a doubt:

There is some sort of a harmony...the harmony of overwhelming and collective Muerder

[mallogurl]

I think you hit the nail on the head there bud!

[Rhademanthus]

My favorite is the intonation at 0:36 to 0:40. His deadpan is repressing the most hysterical emotion there. I fucking love him.

Mueeerdah.

[neurojammer]

Wolfgangle: Because that's the definition of genius—it is defined by its rarity. Otherwise the term would be invalidated. Herzog would lack significance. I would rather have the few, rare Herzogs than an abundance of them castrating significance, rendering all artistic genius into nothing more than obfuscated banality. At least that's how I feel. For whatever value it's worth?

[StarkMevens]

@neurojammer shut up dude

[wolfgangle]

W o W !!! Why aren`t there more geniuses like him making movies?

[y31b]

Preach!

[RikityRooster]

He's simply brilliant, and also perhaps one of the greatest showman around. If you pay close enough to him you'll see that he doesn't take himself seriously at all, while everyone else takes his word as gospel -he consumes attention! I would follow him right into Hell!

[casamusic]

please, post Herzog's SPIEL IM SAND (alias GAME IN THE SAND alias GIOCO SULLA SABBIA)!

[truebe19]

I love his outlook on life.

[mschlosshauer]

Oh, Werner, you lovely man!

[KingDukas]

Excellent.

[Alessandro1985]

What a nice man!

[thevoid99]

I would like to see him and Terrence Malick talk about nature in a bowling match.

[CheekymarK101]

They would never get to bowl as they would be to o enamored by the wooden floor and the way nature has created the floor and how they would only bowl during the magic hour

[brpaccione]

Watch the beginning of The Thine Red Line. You see the vines wrapping themselves around the trees. "Look at this jungle. Look at those vines, the way they twine around the trees swallowing everything. Nature is cruel Staros." I think you will see that there is a sinister side to Malick's nature as well.

[BucketheadRoolz]

We could all learn something from him...