I just happened to read about this amazing man’s story on Facebook of all places and I wanted to learn more. Thank you to these documentary makers for letting me meet the man who was Brendon Grimshaw. His incredible life’s work culminating in keeping a small patch of our beautiful natural world unchanged and now his island is a National Park, long may it stay protected.
What a brilliant soul. Unfortunately to good of a soul. Sell the island and you could go buy yourself another 50 islands and do what you want with those.
Sounds like a wonderful synchronicity. So happy we were able to tell a small but beautiful portion of his life-story and be part of the process of protecting Moyenne through its current National Park status.
What a remarkable man,he deserves way more recognition for what he did to that Island. What a fascinating life he must of had. I hope that the island stays untouched,and left in its natural state.
What I understood out of this beautiful documentary is that this man he is intellecually honest! When he talks he says good words about others and describe things the way it is!
This incredible man became my idol when I got to know his story some years ago, so this documentary was just like a stroking my soul and Mr Brendon Grimshaw will stay my idol for the rest of my life... WELL DONE SIR, you did what the majority of humans just dream about.... to build up a natural paradise...
Thanks! It's been really nice seeing his story lift people's hearts in these slightly more pessimistic times. His life is still to this day such a powerful reminder in my life of what we can accomplish, of the natural harmony and ecological creativity that can still be reached between one place and a few human beings. Have a beautiful day wherever you might be!
Thank you! Love that the film and Brendon's life and stories helped restore a bit of your faith in humanity. I feel like we need now more than ever to remind ourselves that wonderful humans have been caring for this world deeply for as long as humans have existed. Find a place and humans to care about in these times and just look and what Brendon was able to achieve in the latter years of his life. Have another great day hopefully!
This reminds me of a trip I made to a tropical island off the coast of Cambodia called Koh Rong. Admittedly a fairly well known about and already mildly developed island. And when I say developed I mean a lodge and a few small restaurants in huts and an assortment of treehouse bungalows. Nothing significant. However, when we stayed there, from our bungalow we could see them clearing massive swaths of land with excavators, preparing sites for hotels and resorts. It was beautiful and picturesque looking in one direction, and horrifying looking in the other direction. That was in 2016. I can only imagine what has happened to that island since then. It makes no sense to me. You go to an island in which the very draw is it's remoteness and it's peaceful natural environment, and then put a resort on it... which destroys all of that.... well then what's the point? Why have a resort if the resort itself destroys the very thing that makes it worth going there?
💯...THIS!!! The very thing we're desperate to run away from to connect with Nature "the rat race", then being replicated in the very "Paradise" you were enjoying & engaging with..just horrifying INSANITY. Just terribly depressing..this man's moral compass is what many of us would love to emulate.
Incredible production. Solid, thoughtful questions. It’s terribly sad how consumerism and development is touted as progress for all. It seems to me that it’s near impossible to develop an area without exploitation of resources and/or local peoples.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. I could not believe how much the taxes and upkeep on the island cost. I sure hope it remains as he wished. I was hoping to see him working every day.
This was so well done. Keep it pristine and development free. Enough of the world has been destroyed. I am glad there is more awareness to preserve our wildlife habitat because it has been disappearing rapidly.
Thanks! Really happy that Brendon's life-story, his work on Moyenne Island and the Seychelles people's unique care and approach to ecology is making its way around the world.
This! Me too... I was actually on the porch with him having a whisky when he got the phone call that informed him that the government had agreed to declare Moyenne a national reserve. That was the first step. We cried together and not a year later the Seychelles government surprised us all and declared a National Park, making it I believe the smallest national park in the world...who knows these days, but it sounds good, and more importantly felt great to see Brendon have that peace before he died.
I recently asked myself the question... if a society can be "masculine" of "feminine", not necessarily about gender but in ideology. capitalist model, the ideology of economies, of product and revenues... are masculine/left brained/full of the hubris of its logic and science and power. Moyenne Island however, places that are kept as nature intended are representative of the feminine, of the collective vs the individual. Problem is, as we destoy our nature, commodify our feminine, we become imbalanced, we become ever more neurotic. Look around the world and see the neuroses of the world. Moyenne Island is a place that balances the world. Just in its existence, just knowing it can remain, makes me feel there is hope for us.
My dream is to leave the city and leave closer to nature in the countriside. 80% of women do not want to go to the countryside because less "things to do" and less shops firemds and restaurants...so no sorry feminine it is not...unfortunately.
We live in a world where money is a god and luxury is king. We all could be like Brendon Grimshaw but we are a slave to a monetary system and love luxury too much no matter how minute the luxury it is. The simple life of Brendon sounds wonderful until you realize all the hard work you have to put in and the luxuries you would have to sacrifice. That's why most people prefer to be a tourist. Go, take photos, enjoy the simple life to an extent, then go back to our more comfortable reality. Also, they said he had to pay 50K in taxes annually.
What is an endemic plant? Endemic flora are plants that evolved in environments with a unique mix of soil types and climate patterns, in addition to being geographically isolated. Tropical and dry islands host the highest number of endemic plants in the world.
I am so glad he didn’t sell the island to the Saudi prince and now it’s a national park but even a national park will attract tourists which in terms of does have the same effect to the natural beauty and the habitat birds
All the animals on the island will disappear if you sell it to big companies and paradise will be lost forever.Thank you for going against the trend and reject the temptations of the greedy outsiders.
Good question and poorly explained in the film, I admit. Brendon and Renee learned that the giant aldabra tortoises would lay eggs on the island, so they created a nursery to help them grow up in a safe and protected environment and they were allowed to live and roam freely.
They had various catchment systems attached to cisterns and filtration by the time I was there. In the early days, as Brendon might put it, they had to boat the water onto the island.
That's a wow... I wonder what took the life of his friend who was much younger. Arthur C. Clark lived a similar life with a similarly young man who passed much earlier than he.
His friend, Renee Lafortune, died of cancer the year I met Brendon. It was actually through the sharing of that grief that our lives and hearts first met.
I just happened to read about this amazing man’s story on Facebook of all places and I wanted to learn more. Thank you to these documentary makers for letting me meet the man who was Brendon Grimshaw. His incredible life’s work culminating in keeping a small patch of our beautiful natural world unchanged and now his island is a National Park, long may it stay protected.
lol exactly same
What a brilliant soul. Unfortunately to good of a soul. Sell the island and you could go buy yourself another 50 islands and do what you want with those.
Same 😮
Sounds like a wonderful synchronicity. So happy we were able to tell a small but beautiful portion of his life-story and be part of the process of protecting Moyenne through its current National Park status.
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"the ever-expanding reach of our insatiable desires." - THAT is one hell of a quote
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Give this man the universe
He's there and experiencing it this very moment.
Earth is our home, humanity must wake up to save it.
Watching in 2023 lovely gentle man and the island ❤️
Caretaker of nature. Teach this to coming generations.
Watching this May 1st 2024, searched from a Facebook post.
Excellent story.
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May 12th 2024
me too!! from Timeless Stories...thank you...we are all searching a home of peace and beauty
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yep me to fb what a gem of a find
I'm watching this in 2022 .. hopefully this island 🏝 stills natural 🙏
After Grimshaw's death it became a National Park! Yes!
But it is NOT natural. Where are the predators to keep his transplanted plant and animal under check?
@@patriciarossman8653Not Natural?
@@patriciarossman8653it is natural. Native and natural are not the same thing. Borrow a dictionary.
What a remarkable man,he deserves way more recognition for what he did to that Island.
What a fascinating life he must of had.
I hope that the island stays untouched,and left in its natural state.
What a great human! I'm grateful for him and people like him. Thanks to the documentary people that made this beautiful doc.
What I understood out of this beautiful documentary is that this man he is intellecually honest! When he talks he says good words about others and describe things the way it is!
This man is my hero
As a lover of our natural world, thanks so much for this great documentary; it really touched me deeply.
This incredible man became my idol when I got to know his story some years ago, so this documentary was just like a stroking my soul and Mr Brendon Grimshaw will stay my idol for the rest of my life...
WELL DONE SIR, you did what the majority of humans just dream about.... to build up a natural paradise...
So nice to know there is a place in the world without dangerous predators. That is a true paradise. I hope they don't ruin it.
He died in 2012. Great job Sir, I hope this island will remain a reserve in your legacy
such a good ending, I'm glad the greedy millionaires couldn't get their hands on the island and it became a national treasure!
This man is a real hero which deserve real recognition
Look at him, his skin glows and he is happy
What a beautiful, uplifting, documentary, and legacy, Brendon Grimshaw has left behind. We owe it to him, to ensure it stays that way.
Thanks! It's been really nice seeing his story lift people's hearts in these slightly more pessimistic times. His life is still to this day such a powerful reminder in my life of what we can accomplish, of the natural harmony and ecological creativity that can still be reached between one place and a few human beings. Have a beautiful day wherever you might be!
This was a beautiful and inspiring overseer of this frontier. I hope this documentary inspires many to be more of the Earth and for the Earth as well.
Why UA-cam doesn't promote videos like this, is an example for all mankind!
This man is far from ordinary....but I would definitely like to meet him. 🙂
So much respect for this Man 🙌
Faith in humanity restored. Would have loved to have met this amazing human! Great work on the documentary as well- made my entire day! Thank you.
Thank you! Love that the film and Brendon's life and stories helped restore a bit of your faith in humanity. I feel like we need now more than ever to remind ourselves that wonderful humans have been caring for this world deeply for as long as humans have existed. Find a place and humans to care about in these times and just look and what Brendon was able to achieve in the latter years of his life. Have another great day hopefully!
This reminds me of a trip I made to a tropical island off the coast of Cambodia called Koh Rong. Admittedly a fairly well known about and already mildly developed island. And when I say developed I mean a lodge and a few small restaurants in huts and an assortment of treehouse bungalows. Nothing significant. However, when we stayed there, from our bungalow we could see them clearing massive swaths of land with excavators, preparing sites for hotels and resorts. It was beautiful and picturesque looking in one direction, and horrifying looking in the other direction. That was in 2016. I can only imagine what has happened to that island since then. It makes no sense to me. You go to an island in which the very draw is it's remoteness and it's peaceful natural environment, and then put a resort on it... which destroys all of that.... well then what's the point? Why have a resort if the resort itself destroys the very thing that makes it worth going there?
Sad but simple answer David, money 💰
People are greedy… And stupid
Great Comment!
I was there in 2017 for a few nights. Heard the Chinese basically own it now
💯...THIS!!! The very thing we're desperate to run away from to connect with Nature "the rat race", then being replicated in the very "Paradise" you were enjoying & engaging with..just horrifying INSANITY. Just terribly depressing..this man's moral compass is what many of us would love to emulate.
great man, great island
What a fascinating man who lived a wonderful life.
I wish I had of met him.
What a diamond 💎 well done to the team broadcasting the problem at hand too 🤙🏽
Thanks for preserving nature for future generations good work sir's 👍🏞️🦜🪵🪨🎸🤠🌻☮️
Amazing doc! A must watch!!!
Why do we always want to destroy the beauty in this world this man was amazing and I hope the islands stays the same 🙏🙏❤️
Incredible production. Solid, thoughtful questions. It’s terribly sad how consumerism and development is touted as progress for all. It seems to me that it’s near impossible to develop an area without exploitation of resources and/or local peoples.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. I could not believe how much the taxes and upkeep on the island cost. I sure hope it remains as he wished. I was hoping to see him working every day.
Lovely, poignant documentary of an ordinary man's crusade to love and protect his island home..all our homes ❤
wonderful man
What a brilliant man
Great documentary. Thank you for your efforts and sharing
Thank you!
Beautiful , simple, loving, warming sad, hope full❤️🩹 God🙏bless the legacy of this guardian angel..love this work ☮️🤍✝️
I couldn't think of a better man to be and become Moyenne Islands guardian angel! Thanks for your prayers!
This was so well done. Keep it pristine and development free. Enough of the world has been destroyed. I am glad there is more awareness to preserve our wildlife habitat because it has been disappearing rapidly.
Thanks! Really happy that Brendon's life-story, his work on Moyenne Island and the Seychelles people's unique care and approach to ecology is making its way around the world.
Very inspiring!
I'm so glad Brendon lived to see his lifetime work co.e to a great end.
This! Me too... I was actually on the porch with him having a whisky when he got the phone call that informed him that the government had agreed to declare Moyenne a national reserve. That was the first step. We cried together and not a year later the Seychelles government surprised us all and declared a National Park, making it I believe the smallest national park in the world...who knows these days, but it sounds good, and more importantly felt great to see Brendon have that peace before he died.
He is a legend.
Yes he is! Thanks for watching the film!
Emocionante!!!!! Uma pena que um video como esse tenha poucas visualizações...
Glad to learn about Brendan Grimshaw and Moyean Is.
Remarkable and what a life lived and a real legacy, very profound
Such an inspiration. A life on earth very well spend. 🙏
Nobody wants it, until Somebody does...
Like many other things in life.
Fantastic Englishman
Incredible documemtary.
I so wanna be like this guy!
Thank you all for keeping this island safe.
I recently asked myself the question... if a society can be "masculine" of "feminine", not necessarily about gender but in ideology. capitalist model, the ideology of economies, of product and revenues... are masculine/left brained/full of the hubris of its logic and science and power.
Moyenne Island however, places that are kept as nature intended are representative of the feminine, of the collective vs the individual.
Problem is, as we destoy our nature, commodify our feminine, we become imbalanced, we become ever more neurotic. Look around the world and see the neuroses of the world. Moyenne Island is a place that balances the world. Just in its existence, just knowing it can remain, makes me feel there is hope for us.
My dream is to leave the city and leave closer to nature in the countriside. 80% of women do not want to go to the countryside because less "things to do" and less shops firemds and restaurants...so no sorry feminine it is not...unfortunately.
@@MB-xr2lp consumption is not feminine, its a side effect of a masculine ideology... that the world is ours to consume.
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The poem in the begin is by Konstantinos Kavafis : Ithaka (Ιθάκη in English)
If somebody told me this was a Ben from Lost series in his old days i would not question it
A great soul!
To Dream a Dream... perchance.
the man's voice is Ike the narrator in British Pathè documentary
thank you
I think us as consumers should make it clear we would never stay at a hotel on this island.
Cinemagic കണ്ടു വന്നവർ ഉണ്ടോ 👍🏿❤️
We live in a world where money is a god and luxury is king. We all could be like Brendon Grimshaw but we are a slave to a monetary system and love luxury too much no matter how minute the luxury it is. The simple life of Brendon sounds wonderful until you realize all the hard work you have to put in and the luxuries you would have to sacrifice. That's why most people prefer to be a tourist. Go, take photos, enjoy the simple life to an extent, then go back to our more comfortable reality. Also, they said he had to pay 50K in taxes annually.
Semoga masi ada manusia lain diluar sana seperti dia ❤
What a remarkable human being. He reminds me of Moses.
Muhteşem ötesi bir şey böyle insanların varoluşu beni umutlandırdı
What is an endemic plant?
Endemic flora are plants that evolved in environments with a unique mix of soil types and climate patterns, in addition to being geographically isolated. Tropical and dry islands host the highest number of endemic plants in the world.
There is documentary on YT aboit this called ´a grain of sand´
Amazing
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tkz Grimshaw sir
heureusement qu'il existe des être amoureux de la vie , la vraie 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
I am so glad he didn’t sell the island to the Saudi prince and now it’s a national park but even a national park will attract tourists which in terms of does have the same effect to the natural beauty and the habitat birds
All the animals on the island will disappear if you sell it to big companies and paradise will be lost forever.Thank you for going against the trend and reject the temptations of the greedy outsiders.
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What is the piano piece at and around 17:00 ?
Clair de lune
Brought the tortoises from where?
Good question and poorly explained in the film, I admit. Brendon and Renee learned that the giant aldabra tortoises would lay eggs on the island, so they created a nursery to help them grow up in a safe and protected environment and they were allowed to live and roam freely.
He is right
Awesome story. So he never married?
He never got married. Bachelor until the end!
Big up
How did he get drinkable water whe he lived that long on the island?
They had various catchment systems attached to cisterns and filtration by the time I was there. In the early days, as Brendon might put it, they had to boat the water onto the island.
That's a wow...
I wonder what took the life of his friend who was much younger. Arthur C. Clark lived a similar life with a similarly young man who passed much earlier than he.
His friend, Renee Lafortune, died of cancer the year I met Brendon. It was actually through the sharing of that grief that our lives and hearts first met.
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6:15 start
If i get rich, i'd Like to visit it
Have you ever stop to think about why communism is attacked by every powerful nation in the world?
Have you ever lived in communism, have you ever had seen the natural damage these communist regimes caused to own land? Of course, not, isn't it?
Don't think a wife was ever in the offing
Please turkısh subtıtle
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