David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet: movie monologues to shadow
13 monologues from David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- C17 lines
The living world is a unique and spectacular marvel.
Praise of living systemsDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Abundance is stacked until it becomes dependence, so wonder lands as a need. - C16 lines
The natural world is fading.
The witness turnDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020He states the fading, swears he saw it, and still leaves room to repair it. - C111 lines
Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few.
Above the line, almost nothingDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Numbers collapse, a line in the rock makes them visible, and rebuilding is all that remains. - C15 lines
The Holocene was our Garden of Eden.
From Eden to farmingDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020A garden image drops into the plain act of farming, and one verb lets every later civilization arrive without a list. - C15 lines
They discovered that the Serengeti herds required an enormous area of healthy grassland to function.
The wild is finiteDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020It moves from the area the herds need, to the collapse, to a quiet finite, and the endless myth loses. - C118 lines
I was in a television studio when the Apollo mission launched.
Seeing the whole planetDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020A studio memory narrows from a blue sphere to a hard edge on existence. - C110 lines
Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whaling ships in the 1970s.
From slaughter to songDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Blue whales are down to a few thousand and hard to find; a recording then brings humpback songs in. - C18 lines
We have pursued animals to extinction many times in our history,
The killing renamedDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020It renames the killing a crime, then a shared conscience and a way to spread awareness follow. - C17 lines
And yet, this is what we've been turning this dizzying diversity into.
Green strip, then palmsDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020It offers the comfort of a green view, then lifts the shot until that green is only an edge. - C15 lines
What we see happening today is just the latest chapter in a global process spanning millennia.
Unsustainable by definitionDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020After the long count of loss, a definition makes collapse feel like logic rather than a plea. - C123 lines
This habitat was the subject of the series The Blue Planet, which we were filming in the late '90s.
From wonder to a dying oceanDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Wonder comes first, intact and ancient; then empty nets and a faltering cycle take it apart. - C15 lines
When you first see it, you think perhaps that it's beautiful, and suddenly you realize it's tragic.
From beauty to ruinDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020It lets you enjoy the white, then replaces that view with bones, seaweed, and a ruined reef. - C117 lines
The most remote habitat of all exists at the extreme north and south of the planet.
From wonder to lost iceDavid Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020Wonder stands for a moment, then a birth year and a boat that once could not get through make the missing ice felt.