:38:03
Anyway, l should go. l was just
heading home to do some work.
:38:06
-You coming?
-No, l'm gonna stay at Caroline's tonight.
:38:09
A little push, push in the bush.
:38:12
Donald, you're such a tard!
:38:16
See you, Charlie.
:38:22
To write about a flower,
to dramatize a flower...
:38:25
...I have to show the flower's arc.
:38:27
And the flower's arc stretches back
to the beginning of life.
:38:30
How did this flower get here?
What was its journey?
:38:33
Therefore, I should infer
from analogy...
:38:38
... that probably all the organic beings
which have ever lived on this Earth...
:38:42
...have descended
from some one primordial form...
:38:48
... into which life was first breathed.
:38:51
It is a journey of ev olution.
Adaptation.
:38:53
The journey we all tak e. A journey
that unites each and every one of us.
:38:58
"D"arwin writes that we all come
from the very first single-cell organism.
:39:01
Yet here I am.
:39:03
And there's Laroche.
There's Orlean.
:39:06
And there's the ghost orchid.
All trapped in our own bodies...
:39:09
... in moments in history.
That's it.
:39:12
That's what I need to do.
Tie all of history together.
:39:18
Start right before
life begins on the planet.
:39:21
All is...
:39:22
...lifeless.
And then, like, life begins...
:39:25
...with organisms.
Those little single-cell ones.
:39:27
And it's before sex, because,
like, everything was asexual.
:39:30
From there we go to bigger things.
Jellyfish.
:39:33
Then that fish that got legs
and crawled out on the land.
:39:35
And then we see,
you know, like, dinosaurs.
:39:39
And then they're around for a long time.
Then an asteroid comes and:
:39:43
--the insects, the mammals,
the primates, monk eys.
:39:47
The simple monk eys. Old-fashioned
monk eys giving way to the new ones.
:39:50
Whatever. And then apes.
Whatever. And man.
:39:53
Then we see the whole history of
human civilization.: hunting, war, love...
:39:57
...heartache, disease,
loneliness, technology.
:39:59
And we end with Susan Orlean
in her office at The New Yorker...