Speech from Harvard that I said I would link to in the dooblydoo but didn't like to in the dooblydoo because I'm so tired and uploaded nine hours earlier than I intended to upload. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7djd8Sc1rzWpqM.html Also, Light Roasts and decaf are coming to the awesome coffee club next month. Hope you're well. I'm so exhausted. -John

I think I’ve finally got it: Hank’s voice is excitement and wonder and makes me want to learn all of the things. John’s voice is introspection and gravity and makes me want to be present in my own life, despite.

"waiting for the train to emerge out of the darkness like a metaphor" followed immediately by the "escalator to heaven" is the best 1-2 combo since John learned to finish our sandwiches

god there is nothing i need more in my life right now than a thoughts from places video

"the meta verse is a compliment not a replacement to the terraverse" 100% on point

“Its as if the whole place was telling me, touch grass” - John Green 2022 That’s the best quote of my life.

“We’ll see what the people think.” I think it’s a good bit!

Just watched this while getting ready to go for a long walk in the autumn leaves, my first walk alone since my dad passed unexpectedly a month ago. I wasn't sure I could do it. So thank you for the reminder that even though the world seems a little overwhelming right now, I can and should venture out into it. I'm closing KZfaq now, to go out into the terraverse, but thank you to you and to Hank, for being my metaverse father figures and for bringing me a little comfort and encouragement when I need it. Y'all are the best, thanks for being awesome 💜

In more ways than one, thank you for taking us to Plough Lane John.

I live in London and recently had a conversation with an uber driver who is the dad of an AFC Wimbledon player - he also got teary-eyed talking about the stadium and he was so proud that his son played for the team with the best fans!

I'm a lifelong chelsea fan but have been to plough lane a few times when I used to live near wimbledon. What you guys have done with AFC Wimbledon is amazing and I am jealous that your club is owned by the fans and not some foreign billionaire who has no idea what the football club stands for. I really hope you guys turn the season around and get back to league 1!

As someone currently struggling for 8 months now with vertigo caused by long covid, I must say that the end of this video really spoke to my soul.

I'm going to go enjoy the autumnal-ness of just outside London now. Thank you for motivating me to enjoy the world.

I also went to the freize London art fair and saw you there but I was too scared to say hi! The art was absolutely beautiful I've been twice now and it's breathtaking every time.

holy crap, this world is insanely beautiful. i’m always looking for reasons to stick around and i woke up so early this morning and couldn’t figure out why. now I think it’s because I needed to see that rainbow. we’re here because

John, your speech at Harvard was my favourite piece of work from you to date. I think it literally changed my life. Thank you for sharing something so personal and yet so universal 💜

I just got back from London last week. I made so many internet-related plans with my internet-related friends, and I can confirm, there is nothing in the world that compares to seeing a real-life sunset with them.

I'm a couple of years behind on Dear Hank and John and the phrase 4th tier soccer team hit me far harder than I expected. :(

The captions called it "terror verse" and honestly, that feels fitting, too.

I love this... but also as someone who hasn't been able to go outside in over a year and hasn't been able to really see the world in over 2 years due to severe MECFS this made me cry a lot. If you can go outside please do, and thank you to everyone who records the beautiful things in the world and puts them on the internet for those of us that can't.

I always find landscape paintings to be so haunting and transfixing in a way I can't really explain. Looking at paintings like those, my mind goes blank, but its also so hard to look away. Anyway, a perfect double rainbow and a stunning sunset? It seems like the world is trying to remind you how beautiful it is :)

A London escalator "that rather resembles an escalator to heaven" is a phrase that will haunt my daily commute which includes 3 such London escalators. Never before have heaven and Bethnal Green tube station been so closely associated

First comment ever on a KZfaq video ever and just to say I got to go to your talk in Harvard on Friday and it was the highlight of my semester. It felt like listening to your Anthropocene podcast but live, a super surreal moment. Thank you John. Also I hope you found an answer to the question you got asked because I have been thinking about it none stop :)

Thoughts from places videos always remind me to go outside and experience a place firsthand - even if it's just for a walk to the store and standing still to watch the wind move the trees.

I needed this video. My dad passed away about 8 hours ago. This was great. Thank you.

i remember watching the first london thoughts from places in middle school in india and now im watching it from lmy university room in london?? life is so weird

Amazing seeing Plough Lane in action after hearing about its journey from you! Lovely thoughts about the terraverse too. Think I'll go for a walk soon!

One of the most poetic pieces I've heard in a long time. Thank you for your beautiful thoughts and words John.

my god, john’s videos to hank are just these bursts-into-your-life poems that completely enthral you. and hanks videos to john are full-of-passion storytelling that makes you see and understand something you’ve never seen before or given a second thought. i…. utterly love this. thank you.

Love that and love that you were in the UK. Us northerners forget that London isn't all a concrete jungle, there's much beauty in the city. Nice to visit but wouldn't want to live there - but only because of 'the commute' - nobody can actually 'afford' to live in central London. I must also add that 'thoughts from places' are my FAVOURITE VLOGBROTHERS VIDEOS.

I love hearing other people talk about my home town - the good and the bad. “I need to be in the world and remember that I love it” is such a powerful thought and exactly describes how I felt/still feel getting back to the world since covid hit.

I am never more content than when I'm m outside, my wife's hand in mine. This weekend was our 26th anniversary, and we spent some of it at a local college's arboretum. It was so peaceful and the air just felt cleaner.

It's early morning when I am, still dark out. On these fall/winter mornings where I'm up before the sun has even considered rising yet, I sometimes believe that it might never rise. That this darkness might be it, forever. But just when I've given up hope, the sun crests over the hillside and illuminates the world once again. Thanks, John, for bringing in the light this morning.

I too have found myself spending more time outside than on a computer

Since I am now a few weeks out from chemo I have had the desire to walk to our nearby common but have not been able to motivate myself to go out in the cold. Maybe this reminder is the push I need.

Can confirm John, we do call it an elevatoro in the UK- lots of people get that wrong 😉

It's been interesting over the years to watch the evolution of "I'm from the Internet" and "Nerdfighteria is my hometown." Nothing about appreciating the world that isn't the internet, or about needing time outside, invalidates the reality of being a person who is deeply connected to the internet and likes being inside. It does add important dimensions to it, though.

The talk on friday was incredible, i was so happy to have been there! Thank you

"waiting for the train to emerge out of the darkness like a metaphor" reminds me of the saying "there's a light at the end of the tunnel", yet I was visually struck by the fact that the train has headlights - it produces its own light to guide its path through the darkness, and is in fact itself a light in and throughout the tunnel.

5 am vlogbrothers I’m here for this

I love these Garison Keillor esque videos of John's, it's always the thoughtful ones that get me

I'm still in love with how you manage to include your children (here and pizzamas, etc.) while protecting their identity. (you = you and also Hank)

I had Labyrinthitis earlier this year and it kept me in bed for a full month. The end of this video meant the world to me because I get absolutely terrified when I get a random bout of vertigo, but this made me feel a lot better. Thank you John. PS: I'd love to hear more about what you discovered about the illness and your general path to fighting it. You're the only person I've ever seen that also had it happen to them, so it's always nice to know it's not just me.

Hello from almost 6am America! Your video makes me miss London, a place I just got to visit for the first time in July. We spent the longest time (3 nights) of our two weeks in Europe in London. Trafalgar Square really reminded me of being in the world, too--but so did Highgate Cemetery, a place where they were having their first funeral in years. The Tube did feel very metaphorical to me--especially if I apply it to Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead. Tunnels and things rushing out from darkness and the breeze that kicks up as they pass you and the way you look down a Tube train and it can go on forever, twisting and shaking and bright inside. Thanks for the Thoughts from Places vid. They're my absolute fave.

I was walking that same park path just yesterday...it is absurdly autumnal (and absurdly populated by water fowl)!

So far this year, this is my favorite. Thanks for explaining so eloquently my love for the terraverse. I moved to the mountains of Puerto Rico. I raise goats and grow coffee. It is completely new to me [4 years] but I just love the mountains and the views. Yes, it is the "same view" but every day something changes in the color pallets or the arrangement of the fauna and flora. Today the orchid I didn't know I had a months ago, flowered the most beautiful purple flower. Yes, we were without electricity for 21 days because of Hurricane Fiona and it broke my fridge, but I'm learning canning and fermenting so that I can be even more self-sufficient. I'm hoping to build a business with what I learn and the goats in this community with the goal to buy an acre or two near this property we are renting from my stepmom... so that we can finally build our happy here, be able to help here, and grow old here. My happy IS already here... is just not permanent yet. Then again, the impermanence of the terraverse with is landslides and earthquakes terraforming Terra is what I love about this beautifulplanet we call home. Even the inconvenience has the beauty of uniting a community during hard times. You see? You got me all inspired and stuff. Definitely my favorite vlog this year. May each one from now on surpasses it!

I just moved to the east coast after growing up in Texas all my life. Currently having my first “absurdly autumnal” experience and it is incredible

I am in my first semester of a graduate degree in social work. I was reading today about human behavior and the social environment. They talked about how therapeutic being in nature is and how hopsital patients in rooms with views of nature recover faster. You’re words about nature reminded me of this.

Terraverse over everything! Labyrintitus is a unique kind of torture. I don't wish it on anyone, and it's always a small comfort hearing John talk about it.

I love the idea that tech is a complement to reality as a tool if it is used well and healthily. To love our interconnectedness to nature, one another, and the togetherness games we play, in the real world we came from and in the short-term or expansive spaces we create together. We're all hard-wired for connection and belonging.

John welcome to London, I hope you enjoyed your stay here. There is nothing more beautiful than autumn in London but this autumn is especially beautiful 🍂

I'm so happy John had the opportunity to attend another match!! It's been so long 🥲

I was at the Memorial Church speech! The best moment for me was how well the Timothée Chalamet quote landed - there was over a minute of applause after it.

i just started college, i miss my mom, i miss my dog who followed me everywhere, i miss the goofy flavors my favorite hometown coffee place had. i am very small and the world is very big. thanks for this comfort, john. always a constant

I was at memorial church for the speech! As a nerdfighter and as a UCC minister in cambridge area your words were so meaningful and so needed. excellent theology!!

You call it an elevator, we call it a lift - it's because we are raised differently.

Hope you enjoyed the match too, despite the result. Also, thanks for making me miss London even more that I already did. Yours sincerely, a Londoner in exile in the frozen north

John you may be interested to read the story of Woodham Brothers Scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. There are haunting pictures of the yard in its heyday when over two hundred old steam locomotives lay there, rusting in the sea air as they waited to be cut up. Except that's not what happened. One by one they were bought up, mostly by societies of normal people who paid the scrap value and got to work restoring them. Not because the engines were profitable, or even historically important but because they didn't want to see those old machines die. These days the UK has one of the biggest fleets of heritage trains in the world, which I think stands as a testament to collective determination, as well as our attachment to beautiful, hundred year old lumps of metal.

Last month I was blessed to visit the Louvre and Rijksmuseum for the first time, along with the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. I've been an art appreciator all my life, but to see these masterpieces in person was life changing. I didn't understand before how powerful it would be to stand in front of paintings, some centuries old, and be able to see the brush strokes. I could imagine having a conversation with the artists. I could feel how they might have felt as they put paint to canvas. The real world, the terraverse, is SO awesome! I'm grateful we can see it.

I will never not love thoughts from places. It’s like a postcard from places that you’ll never be able to see in such a light.

Perfect illustration at 3min of “the internet is a complement to the terraverse”. I never would have seen that sky without the internet.

I've used the motivation of walking to pick up a food order to get myself outside, and truly makes a big difference

This video essay expressed so well the feelings I had this weekend while I picked apples and pressed cider at an orchard near where I live. It was beautiful and grounding. Thanks for putting into words what I was feeling.

Every Vlogbrothers videos always hits some tiny satisfying spot. This one, without a doubt, hit the spot dead center. Exactly what I needed today. Thanks guys.

This is something i came to terms with in college when I was studying media production A big thing to learn when trying to capture the beauty of the world through a lens is having to compromise on the fact that the human eye is far better than a lens will ever be (as far as current technology is concerned) and so every know and then i will look at the world and think on that fact and appreciate it

Gosh I love the way a 'Thoughts from Places' video can make me feel. It's life feeling genuine human connection when you haven't had that all day.

It’s so weird being awake at almost 4 am Seattle time, and seeing a vlogbrothers video that was posted less than an hour ago….

Thank you for sharing these words and images! What an incredible trip this must have been for your family. Knowing all the extraordinary mental, physical and practical challenges that needed to be overcome to get there, it seems like you all had some extraordinary experiences on the trip.

john, thank you. thank you for this window into plough lane, and your life, and the world outside of home and school.thank you for these thoughts that, i needed to hear so desperately. Go outside. Take a walk. Lay in the grass and see the branches cut open the sky. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

I keep seeing study abroad in London options at my college but I know it makes no sense for me financially or academically, so I appreciate this snippet of London vibes

I love getting lost in art. It helps quiet my mind and soul 😊

Such beautiful word usage, thank you John.

Love a good ol' thoughts from places video.

Hey John! I know there’s a small likelihood of you seeing this, but I wanted to say that your speech at Harvard was really really wonderful. It made me think actual thoughts which were fully formed and not scary about my life and that doesn’t happen often. I even tried to recommend it to my mom, but I ran into the lovely problem of not-being-able-to-summarize-because-the-whole-thing-is-so-good. It was defiantly a “you just have to watch it please” moment. I turned it on while stress cooking and ending up stopping everything to listen. Your thoughts on suffering and proximity ring so true and it validated a lot of things I have been thinking about. I know you may not have intended that effect, but thanks for it anyways. You are such a thoughtful writer and thinker P.S I cannot WAIT until you answer that question from the girl 8 years from now. Thanks for your honesty in that moment-that was hilarious😂

Thoughts From Places is my favorite. Thank you once again for sharing this with us

Your thoughts from places is my favorite series of videos. Thank you

Thoughts from places is second only to reunion videos in my mind. Thanks as always.

Wow early upload. Glad you had a fun vacation! The art you shared with us is beautiful :)

Thanks John. Message received. Can't wait to watch your Harvard speech, I want to hear your theology my Adam!

I love this beautiful and hard world we live in and I always will. Thanks for reminding me why.

i grew up in alaska, and somehow made it to London for university (in the middle of covid no less) and as much as living here horribly depresses me, this video made me feel better. I didn't know about that football team, I didn't know about frieze london, makes me think there's some stuff worth while for me here, in the end hopefully it'll be worth it.

"we lost on the day... We lost on a lot of days recently" is such a perfect way to sum up just about every small town football fan experience. (My local team recently scored 3 goals and lost 2:1...)

Welcome to London! Hope you had a good time, and come back soon!

Thank you SO much John for talking about your experiences with Labyrinthitis. Vestibular diseases are extremely debilitating and life-altering and there isn't enough awareness about them. I have Meniere's Disease, a chronic vestibular disorder that causes vertigo and hearing loss. Vertigo episodes are 11/10 awful. Nothing makes me feel more trapped in my body than vertigo. Thanks for bringing some awareness to this rarely talked about health issue. Although I am deeply saddened by all the people experiencing vestibular issues from long covid, I am hopeful that it will lead to more research which in turn could help those of us with incurable and chronic vestibular diseases. Meniere's Disease has wreaked havoc on the trajectory of my life and many others', but nevertheless we persist. ❤

One of my favorite things on KZfaq was the Art Assignment art trips, and this was a nice reminder of those.

What a beautiful start to my Tuesday morning 🥰 Thank you, John.

What a lovely narration of life. Thanks you!

I was feeling anxious and could not sleep. This video helped me feel calm because as always, your videos leave me feeling hopeful. Thank you.

Thoughts From Places videos are always are such a pleasant surprise.

I just went on an amazing trip to London about a month ago and your description of those steep elevators is apt! 😄 Also, we went to the National Gallery in London and in the medieval art section we played the "has this artist ever seen a baby" game and later saw some famous works by Monet, Van Gogh, and Turner; Before that I had NEVER seen art I've recognized in person!! It was incredible!

I took a very similar photo of the sky above where I am in South London at the weekend. Lovely to have you and the family in my part of the world John. The autumnal London Terraverse is indeed gorgeous.

This was exactly what I needed. It always is. Thank you, John. ❤️

Thoughts from places in my hometown, this has brought so much joy to my day ♥

I love listening to your view on life through books, vlogs, podcasts, and speeches. I can’t think of anyone capable of using better words in then best formation than you.

"Look at this light, these trees, and then know that out there, wherever you are, the light is more vivid, and the trees more alive than they can ever be on KZfaq." First, I'd like to acknowledge that the above quote is an absolutely wonderful and deeply thoughtful sentiment worth great consideration. And yes, the ultimate way to experience the 'terraverse', which is and always will be indeed vastly superior to anything on the internet, is to physically see these places in-person (or 'touch grass' there, as the saying goes). Unfortunately, not all of us have the financial ability to physically visit these wonderfully amazing places in the world, and so the closest we can get is viewing the scenes as others who DO have more economic freedom display them second-hand on the internet. I'm not sure I like the implication that those of us who can't set our feet in these spaces are failing to do something or choosing to trade something real for a less genuine version of that thing.

No, “elevatoro” is not funny, but this video is genius. Not just how much brilliance you fit into 3 minutes, but the videography, the perfection of how the visuals go with the writing,, and most of all how much of the trip is there. I live travel videos, and when I saw it was only 3 minutes, I was disappointed. But somehow it’s fully satisfying as a London visit.

Another inspirational and educational video. Thank you.

thanks John for the the spirit-lift... much appreciated

0:54 What an incredible photo by Sarah! Also, John, we have the same birthday! How neat is that!

Loved this video ♥ Made me feel very calm.