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Angraecum sesquipedale.
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Beauty! God!
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Darwin wrote about this one.
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Charles Darwin? Evolution guy?
Hello?
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You see that nectary
all the way down there?
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Darwin hypothesized a moth...
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...with a nose 12 inches long
to pollinate it.
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Everyone thought he was a loon.
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Then, sure enough, they found
this moth with a 12-inch proboscis.
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- "Proboscis" means nose, by the way.
- I know what "proboscis" means.
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Hey, let's not get off the subject.
This isn't a pissing contest.
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The point is,
what's so wonderful...
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...is that every one of these flowers
has a specific relationship...
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...with the insect that pollinates it.
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There's a certain orchid
looks exactly like a certain insect.
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So the insect is drawn to this flower...
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...its double, its soul mate...
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...and wants nothing more
than to make love to it.
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After the insect flies off...
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...it spots another soul-mate flower
and makes love to it, thus pollinating it.
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And neither the flower nor the insect
will ever understand...
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...the significance
of their lovemaking.
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How could they know that because
of their little dance, the world lives?
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But it does.
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By simply doing
what they're designed to do...
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...something large
and magnificent happens.
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In this sense, they show us
how to live.
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How the only barometer
you have is your heart.
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How when you spot your flower,
you can't let anything get in your way.
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He's really quite a character.
No front teeth.
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- Doesn't seem to bother him at all.
- Why doesn't he get them fixed?
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It seems almost sociopathic
to make everybody look at that.
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Yeah, but he gives
a great blowjob, honey.
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He is a fascinating character, though.