:12:02
That you need a date.
:12:04
Shh!
:12:06
After studying thousands of these pesky
creatures under the microscope...
:12:11
I've yet to find a single gall wasp
that's the same as another.
:12:14
In fact, some are so different...
:12:17
that the offspring of one generation...
:12:19
bear no more resemblance to their parents
than a sheep bears to a goat.
:12:23
There are those of us who might
take comfort in this fact.
:12:30
Consider the implications.
:12:33
If every single living thing is different
from every other living thing...
:12:37
then diversity becomes
life's one irreducible fact.
:12:41
Only variations are real.
:12:44
And to see them...
:12:46
you simply have to open your eyes.
:13:05
Hello. Mind if I sit here?
:13:09
Why?
:13:11
Because you're
the only unattached male...
:13:13
and I'm the only unattached female.
:13:16
That's very sensible.
:13:20
A man who cooks. How refreshing.
:13:23
I picked it up when I went out west
to collect galls.
:13:26
I was gone for 11 months, and I don't think I
saw more than a dozen people the whole time.
:13:30
- Sounds lonely.
- Oh.
:13:32
I enjoyed it.
:13:35
I've been reading up on gall wasps.
:13:37
- I think I know why they appeal to you.
- Uh-huh.
:13:40
They have great big wings,
but they can't fly.
:13:43
They are incapable of getting
from this hill to that hill...
:13:46
unless it's close enough to walk...
:13:48
which means it's possible...
:13:51
to retrace each generation's steps,
hill by hill...
:13:54
by hill by hill...
:13:55
all the way back
to the very beginning.
:13:58
The gall wasp Garden of Eden.