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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

We had broken loose. We were apartfrom the rest of life on earth, living a different kind...

[Attenborough] We had broken loose. We were apart
from the rest of life on earth, living a different kind of life

Full Transcript

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[Attenborough] We had broken loose.
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We were apart from the rest of life on earth,
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living a different kind of life.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:47
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Silverback Films,Altitude Film Entertainment,WWF-UK

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Movie Summary

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
Our predators had been eliminated. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:20
Our predators had been eliminated.
we would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
we would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up.
Whole habitats would soon start to disappear. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
Whole habitats would soon start to disappear.
I first witnessed the destruction of an entire habitat in Southeast Asia. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:27
I first witnessed the destruction of an entire habitat in So...
[Attenborough] By the end of the century, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
[Attenborough] By the end of the century,
Rainforests are particularly precious habitats. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
Rainforests are particularly precious habitats.
They're places in which evolution's talent for design soars. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
They're places in which evolution's talent for des...
Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small numbers. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small...
Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young,
Without this training, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:43
Without this training,
A habitat that is dead in comparison. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
A habitat that is dead in comparison.
And you see this curtain of green with occasionally birds in it, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
And you see this curtain of green with occasionally birds in...
But if you get in a helicopter, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
But if you get in a helicopter,
And beyond that strip, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
And beyond that strip,
There is a double incentive to cut down forests. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:17
There is a double incentive to cut down forests.
Which is why we've cut down three trillion trees across the world. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
Which is why we've cut down three trillion trees across...
What we see happening today - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
What we see happening today
The deforestation of Borneo has reduced the population of orangutan - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
The deforestation of Borneo has reduced the population of or...
We can't cut down rainforests forever, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
We can't cut down rainforests forever,
If we do things that are unsustainable, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:15
If we do things that are unsustainable,