Use Your Eyes (1973)

Hey, look. Look down. Look all around you. Tell me what you see. There's so much to be discovered if you'll look carefully. Do you know how to see? Not many of us do. Most of us go through life just looking at things, never really seeing anything. You've got to learn to use your eyes, just like you must learn to talk or read. We've all looked at a flower before, but did you ever really see one? If you look closely, you things you've never seen [Music] before. Hey, look in look out. Look all about you. Tell me what you find. Remember when you use your eyes, you also use your [Music] mind. You can look at anything in many different ways, even a city street. Up close, it looks like this. When you get a little farther away, you begin to see different patterns. [Music] It looks like this when you're standing on the sidewalk. And now you can see how people use it too. How would it look from a tall [Music] building? From an airplane, you can see how the same street fits into the pattern of the city. To really understand something, you must look at it in a lot of different ways. Each way you look at it tells you something new. And the more ways you look at it, the more you know. A good way to understand things is to look at them closely. Try watching a snail sometime. How does it come out of its shell? How does it move? [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Heat. Heat. There are things around you every day that can tell you something new about your world. But you can't see them unless you try. Have you ever noticed how glass changes the way we see things? [Music] How is cloth put [Music] together? What does your own skin look like? Is this newspaper picture a photograph or just a bunch of dots? What do you think this is? Go ahead, make a guess. [Music] Details are important, but you've got to see the whole thing, too, or you might get into trouble. [Music] [Music] Some things take more time to see. Have you ever planted tomatoes and observed how they grow? How do they grow? [Music] [Music] Now, do you think you know how to see? Let's pretend that you're standing here with Chris looking at this bay. Quick. Now, what do you [Music] see? You probably saw the bridge, but did you see the cars on it? [Music] Did you see the freighter coming in from the [Music] [Music] ocean and the small boats? [Music] What else was there? Did you see the seagulls? [Music] The pattern of the waves, the weeds on the cliff. How about the city across the bay? Seeing is one of the most important things you do. Learn to use your eyes. See how beautiful the world really is. Watch how things work. You can learn new things every day if you just use your eyes. Hey, look up. Look all around you. Tell me what you see. There's so much to be discovered if you'll look carefully. [Music]