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(Video link here<\/a>.) This video features the great natural history documentarian, Sir David\u00a0Attenborough, reading lines from\u00a0the\u00a0Louis Armstrong song<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWhat a Wonderful World\u201d as stunning scenes from Attenborough\u2019s documentaries fill the screen. While we watched, we were both delighted and a bit stymied. The video was both beautiful and perspective-broadening, while bordering on being precious and slightly manipulative. It was in fact made by the ad agency\u00a0RKCR\/Y&RH<\/a>\u00a0as a tribute to the aging Attenborough and a promo piece for his latest, and possibly last series,\u00a0Frozen Planet<\/a>. That explains alot.<\/p>\n

As often happens, \u00a0we held off on posting it until something came along to point it in an unexpected direction. We found it on the strange and beautiful blog Rolu<\/a>, in a poem by James Broughton<\/a>.\u00a0If you mute the video’s corny soundtrack and \u00a0keep the poem in mind as you watch, you get a WHOLE other experience…<\/p>\n

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this is it<\/em>
\nthis is really it<\/em>
\nthis is all there is.<\/em>
\nand it\u2019s perfect as it is.<\/em><\/p>\n

there is nowhere to go<\/em>
\nbut here.<\/em>
\nthere is nothing here<\/em>
\nbut now.<\/em>
\nthere is nothing now<\/em>
\nbut this.<\/em><\/p>\n

and this is it.<\/em>
\nthis is really it<\/em>
\nthis is all there is.<\/em>
\nand it\u2019s perfect as it is.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…an inadvertent mashup<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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