WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.331 --> 00:00:02.599 [pinging] 2 00:00:02.599 --> 00:00:07.599 [light music] [birds twittering] 3 00:00:09.030 --> 00:00:11.800 When you get to know a particular animal, 4 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.730 as you do when you're making films, 5 00:00:13.730 --> 00:00:16.150 you suddenly realize that they are different. 6 00:00:16.150 --> 00:00:19.530 I remember very clearly making a film about a spider. 7 00:00:19.530 --> 00:00:21.200 This is called a bolas spider. 8 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:23.030 It spins silk. 9 00:00:23.030 --> 00:00:25.370 It puts a little blob on the bottom of the thread. 10 00:00:25.370 --> 00:00:27.540 And then it whirls it like a bolas. 11 00:00:27.540 --> 00:00:30.767 And I said to the cameraman, "Look, that's what it does, 12 00:00:30.767 --> 00:00:32.900 "old boy, go away and film it." 13 00:00:32.900 --> 00:00:34.590 In due course, I went down there 14 00:00:34.590 --> 00:00:36.550 and he had a number of milk bottles. 15 00:00:36.550 --> 00:00:39.520 And he had sprigs of vegetation in each one of them. 16 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:41.730 And on each one of them there was a spider. 17 00:00:41.730 --> 00:00:44.277 He said, "This one," he said, "Is absolutely hopeless. 18 00:00:44.277 --> 00:00:47.457 "I mean, if you shine a light, she won't do anything at all. 19 00:00:47.457 --> 00:00:49.773 "She simply won't throw us a bolas. 20 00:00:49.773 --> 00:00:51.947 "And the one next to it, she hates sound, 21 00:00:51.947 --> 00:00:54.747 "and if I make a click or something, she stops. 22 00:00:54.747 --> 00:00:57.117 "But that one, she's an absolute darling. 23 00:00:57.117 --> 00:01:00.277 "Put a moth anywhere near her and she swings her bolas 24 00:01:00.277 --> 00:01:03.210 "and it's absolutely dead certain you've got a great shot." 25 00:01:03.210 --> 00:01:05.780 Spiders with individual personalities. 26 00:01:05.780 --> 00:01:06.663 Come on. 27 00:01:08.130 --> 00:01:11.730 No generation has had an awareness 28 00:01:11.730 --> 00:01:15.880 of what goes on worldwide in every part of the globe 29 00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:18.270 from the tops of the mountains to the bottom of the seas, 30 00:01:18.270 --> 00:01:19.770 than we have. 31 00:01:19.770 --> 00:01:23.330 We have no excuse for not knowing what we're doing 32 00:01:23.330 --> 00:01:24.463 to the natural world. 33 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:28.590 If you give the natural world just half a chance, 34 00:01:28.590 --> 00:01:31.450 it bounces back in an extraordinary way. 35 00:01:31.450 --> 00:01:33.463 That is what gives you optimism. 36 00:01:35.020 --> 00:01:36.370 People say, "Do you think about death?" 37 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:37.900 Of course I think about death. 38 00:01:37.900 --> 00:01:40.490 You think about death every time you get up in a morning. 39 00:01:40.490 --> 00:01:41.696 The difference between something 40 00:01:41.696 --> 00:01:44.510 that was living five minutes ago 41 00:01:44.510 --> 00:01:48.100 and is not anymore, is very difficult to define. 42 00:01:48.100 --> 00:01:50.899 But you know when other things have it. 43 00:01:50.899 --> 00:01:52.640 And you know when they don't. 44 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.213 That sort of mortality is what links us all. 45 00:01:58.240 --> 00:01:59.073 We're one. 46 00:02:04.618 --> 00:02:07.201 [lively music]