There is a beautiful memory from the years I studied landscape architecture at Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture. My ecology teacher shared about how she argued to protect the name of a tree species while everyone people want to change it to a more beautiful and meaningful name to make it easier to sell. This impressed me because I don’t understand why someone could protect the name of a tree. A few years after seeing a project called: “A Life on Earth” (David David Attenborough), I was extremely moved and seemed to understand a little more about the special personality of my ecology teacher. It seems like many other batches of students and I have not had many opportunities and time to interact, challenge, and form a special emotional bond that goes beyond knowledge and experience a tree or an entire ecosystem like my teacher.
The act of protecting the name of a tree species, even though the name is not beautiful, but the name concretizes the biological properties of that tree also partly reminds me of protecting the community and the vulnerable before the furious wave of society, always ready to erase anyone’s identity.
“It seems reasonable to believe – and I do believe – that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”
(Rachel Carson)
The series of photos is inspired by some small but important creatures on our planet, thereby showing the beauty of the natural world and the depletion of resources due to human exploitation.
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These photos are like a journey from the desert to the ocean and green forest, and finally back to the big cities.
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“How much time do we have before something bad happens
to our planet? “
