The Amazon beckons—Ceiba trees emerging above the forest canopy; woolly monkeys doing acrobatics in the trees; macaws and parrotlets chattering; leaf-cutter ants farming; a salt lick where peccaries convene. 
The Pacific Northwest is feeling so very January right now—water falling and misting, pooling on clay soils, thick grey skies, cool but rarely deeply cold.
In one week, @BretWeinstein and I will be back in a lowland tropical rainforest: similarly wet, hotter by 60 degrees.
In one week, @BretWeinstein and I will be back in a lowland tropical rainforest: similarly wet, hotter by 60 degrees.
@BretWeinstein The Ecuadoran Amazon is, by many measures, the most biodiverse ecosystem on Earth. In its heart lies the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, which will be our home for ~2 weeks, with no internet or hot water; a clean simple cabin; and a few hours of electricity each day.
@BretWeinstein People don’t expect mud when they go to the lowland tropical rainforest—the jungle, of popular parlance—but it’s thick. We wear rubber boots to navigate it, and to protect from snakebite should we inadvertently step on a viper or a coral snake.
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@BretWeinstein Nature is not a nature documentary, but learn to look, to really look, to observe what is there rather than what you think is there, or what you want to be there, or what you think it means, and learn to be still, and utterly quiet…and the Amazon reveals so much.
