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If trees could speak

Elif Shafak · TED

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About

How do we tell stories of humanity and nature at a time when our planet is burning? Novelist Elif Shafak invites us to listen to the trees, whose experience of time, stillness and impermanence is utterly different from our own. "Hidden inside [their] story is the past and the future of humanity," she says.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
Countdown
Speaker
Elif Shafak
Year
2020
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Literature and writing
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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