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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

It's only now that I appreciatehow extraordinary

It's only now that I appreciate
how extraordinary

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It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:01
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.
[speaking indistinctly] - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
[speaking indistinctly]
I've experienced the living world firsthand in all its variety and wonder. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
I've experienced the living world firsthand in all its ...
I've always had a passion to explore, to have adventures, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
I've always had a passion to explore, to have adventure...
As much now as I did when I was a boy. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
As much now as I did when I was a boy.
It was a very different world back then. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:21
It was a very different world back then.
It was a great place to come to as a boy, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
It was a great place to come to as a boy,
When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time
And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here
And it lived about 180 million years ago. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
And it lived about 180 million years ago.
This particular one has a scientific name of Tiltonicerus, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:12
This particular one has a scientific name of Tiltonicerus,
Over time, I began to learn something about the earth's evolutionary history. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
Over time, I began to learn something about the earth's...
By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change.
Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:16
Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms,
And then, every hundred million years or so, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:20
And then, every hundred million years or so,
All that evolution undone. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:22
All that evolution undone.
A mass extinction has happened five times in life's four-billion-year history. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
A mass extinction has happened five times in life's fou...
The last time it happened - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:21
The last time it happened
Life had no option but to rebuild. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:20
Life had no option but to rebuild.
Scientists call it the Holocene. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
Scientists call it the Holocene.
The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:17
The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods