‘My Octopus Teacher’ Filmmaker on Connecting to Our Wild Selves

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Craig Foster may be best known for “My Octopus Teacher,” the Oscar-winning documentary about his tender relationship with a wild female octopus who inhabited the kelp forests off the coast of South Africa. He’s now written a new book called “Amphibious Soul,” which invites us along on his underwater excursions and shows us how, through techniques like tracking, we can connect with creatures and our wild selves. Is there a wild animal or place that you’ve built a connection with? Guests: Craig Foster, author, "Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World," natural history filmmaker, creator, "My Octopus Teacher," co-founder, Sea Change Project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.6	Coming up on forum, Craig Foster is best known for his film My Octopus Teacher
0:59.6	about the healing relationship he developed with a cephalopod.
1:03.2	I had to have a radical change in my life.
1:06.7	And the only way I knew to do it was to be in this ocean with her.
1:11.4	Foster has written a new book about the South African waters and kelp forest,
1:15.4	where he's built a profound connection with many wild creatures and plants,
1:19.2	and he shares how he's been able to develop that connection.
1:22.6	It's called amphibious soul.
1:24.7	Have you felt a deep connection to a wild place or animal?
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