Conservationist Beverly Joubert's Near-Death Experience
>> LET ME JUST ASK YOU A LAST QUESTION. THE STORY OF YOU BOTH GETTING WOUNDED, AND PARTICULARLY YOU, BEVERLY, BY THAT BUFFALO THREE YEARS AGO IS VERY DRAMATIC. YOU NEARLY DIDN'T SURVIVE, RIGHT? >> THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE, AND I GET A LITTLE HEART PALPITATION WHEN YOU SAY THAT. DERECK SAID THEY HAD TO BRING ME BACK. SIMILARITIES TO WHAT HAPPENED TO US IS HAPPENING TO THE PLANET, AND SINCE DERECK AND I ARE SITTING HERE, WE FEEL WE CAN BOUNCE BACK IF WE CREATE THE CHANGE. BUT TO GIVE YOU A QUICK IDEA, A BUFFALO CAME CHARGING AT US. WE WERE JUST MOVING FROM ONE TENT TO THE OTHER. HE WENT BETWEEN US, BUT HE BORE UP UNDER MY ARMPIT, COLLAPSED MY LUNG AND THEN CONTINUED INTO THE CHEEKBONE. MY FACE WAS QUITE A MESS. I HAD SEVERAL BROKEN BONES. >> INCREDIBLE. >> WHAT IT TEACHES US IS THAT IF YOU GO THROUGH THAT AND YOU WATCH THE WOMAN YOU LOVE DYING IN YOUR ARMS FOUR TIMES THROUGH THE NIGHT AND SURVIVE, YOU COME OUT OF IT WITH HOPE AND AN INVIGORATED MISSION TO CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER AND NOT WASTE A SINGLE MOMENT.
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