Hello and welcome to a special edition of Five Things.

I'm Eve Chen, a Consumer Trial Reporter for USA Today.

Thanks for joining us.

Today, we're speaking with one of the most beloved and accomplished classical musicians

of our time, a UN Ambassador for Peace, and founder of Silk Road Ensemble Yo-Yo Love.

And his latest project, Our Common Nature, which is taking him to all sorts of natural

spaces, to play music and cheer on the culture of those places, while connecting with various

people invested in preserving the land for generations to come.

Welcome to Five Things Yo-Yo, thank you for joining us.

Thank you, it's so great to be with you, and I'm so excited to talk about anything

you want to ask me.

Terrific.

You have described music at the lens to explore everything.

What if you learned through our common nature, and what do you hope others learn from it?

The study of nature and of ourselves, our common natures, in a way, gives us, again, not

only perspective, but it starts to give us different kinds of tools.

Number one, not only where to place our problems, but then different ways of solving them.

Whether you look at the infinitude of living things that are around us and the ecosystems

that allow them to thrive, that have to be in equilibrium in order for everything to

keep going.

That's a big thing.

I think a lot of young people feel that already.

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