National Geographic.

Four times I did work with National Geographic, making tectonic plate measurements twice, I went with NASA doing remote sensing devices.

This was our expedition.

I'm the first one.

I want you to get as close to that camel as you possibly can.

If, on the other hand, we need to look them all up, we may be in trouble.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

This is Keith Bellows with the TED National Geographic Camel Investigation Unit.

And as we were finishing up that film it was co produced with National Geographic

He just goes on about how if Mom ever needed him... she could reach him through the National Geographic magazine in D.C.

But the other motivating factor is the insular nature of our country.

I tried to get in touch with Robert, but he had left the National Geographic.

And let's start with this time machine, the Line Islands, where we have conducted a series of National Geographic expeditions.

National Geographic likes their photos in focus... and not too much personal comment.

And I saw this beautiful place. I knew I wanted to come back.

And I've had very serious doubt about its efficacy, and my own faith in humanity.

The first one that we see occurs in the ancient rain forests of Australia about 25 million years ago, and the National Geographic Society is helping us to explore these fossil deposits.

Aimee Corrigan, a very talented and young photographer, and Robert Caputo, a friend and a mentor, who is a veteran of National Geographic, and told me, You know, Franco, in 25 years of covering Africa,

He was a photographer and he was here in 1965... shooting an article for National Geographic... on the covered bridges of Madison County.

El Nacional.

Where would it go?

Look, Gus, take it easy. ( sobbing )

Since then, I've had the great pleasure of working with the Googlers, with DOER Marine, with National Geographic, with dozens of the best institutions and scientists around the world, ones that we could enlist, to put the ocean in Google Earth.

But then a couple of years later, when I was a company commander,

Far East National Bank, 11 30!

And National Geographic got interested because National Geographic has the theory that the last century, discovery was basically finding things, and in this century, discovery is basically making things.

I'm telling you these things because if a kid from South Central who was about to be a gang member can grow up to be a National Geographic Explorer and sit here in front of you and address you like I am today, then don't ever, ever in your life doubt what you can do.

It had to be approved by actually two agencies.

Mixing means building customized courses, means building customized books.

This lady, she developed a herbal pesticide formulation.

(Laughter)

No crime of any magnitude dating from the middle or end of February was known to have occurred.

(Laughter)

After 20 years, we see emerging the debris accumulation zone of the North Pacific Gyre.

What you're looking at is Rembrandt's painting, now in the National Gallery in London, illustrating the text from the prophet Daniel in the Hebrew scriptures.

The Mall is the greatest civic stage in this country for dissent.

The site chosen is across from the Lincoln Memorial you see it there directly on the Mall.

So, I went yesterday, I apologize, I skipped a few of the talks, and I went over to the National Academy of Sciences building, and they sell toys, giant microbes.

But more poetically, we like to think of the structure as inhaling the democratic air of the Mall, bringing it into itself.

Empecé mi vida como maquina muy joven, fui la voz de Tillie, el primer cajero automático...