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Travel with Rick Steves

337a Indigenous Plight; Beauty in a Broken World; Ever-Evolving Berlin

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hear how author Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in a broken world through the people she's met in her travels to Italy and Rwanda. Also, Phil Borges reveals what he's learned from photographing indigenous people around the world, and playwright Peter Wortsman tells us why he loves the ever-evolving nature of Berlin.

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0:00.0

Where were you on 9-11?

0:03.0

Terry Tempest Williams was in Washington, D.C.

0:06.0

We were told by a security guard that the Twin Towers had been bombed

0:11.0

and the White House looked to be next. We were right across from the White House.

0:15.0

He said, run. None of us moved.

0:18.0

Phil Borges has traveled to some of the world's most remote spots to photograph indigenous people whose ways of life are being threatened.

0:25.6

He realized there was something they could teach the rest of us.

0:28.6

I mean, their PhDs of their part of the land, they know things that our scientists don't know.

0:35.0

And today in Berlin, Peter Vortzmann notices a difference between his neighbors depending on which

0:39.3

side of the wall they were raised.

0:41.3

They grew up with very different expectations about the future, a different

0:45.3

ideology, a different sense of history and their place in history and their place in

0:49.7

society. Stay with us in the hour ahead as we consider many forms of beauty in a broken world.

0:55.0

It's travel with Rick Steves.

0:57.0

For a city that's endured more than its share of dreadful history, Berlin sure is resilient.

1:07.0

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steve's, playwright Peter Vortsman returns to explain how change is one of the constants that keeps Berlin energized and interesting.

1:17.0

We'll also check in shortly with author Terry Tempest Williams.

1:21.0

She'll tell us how learning the art of making a mosaic in Italy

1:24.7

helped her to cope with the emotional effects of 9-11. Her soul searching continued

1:29.8

in post-genocide Rwanda where she witnessed incredible acts of beauty in the midst of a broken world.

1:36.0

Let's start today with photographer Phil Borges.

1:39.0

Phil Specializes and respectful even dignified portrait studies that document the lives and faces of

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