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Today we have something
a little different.

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Dr. Jane Goodall 
is going to tell you a story.

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Stay tuned after
the animation

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to learn how to download
this as a free children's book.

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Ready?

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Let's begin.

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It starts as a whisper,

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a word on the air.

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It can't quite be heard,
but you know that it's there.

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As gentle
as sunlight,

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as tenacious
as hale,

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in its route to the heart,
it could not but prevail.

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And the people looked up
from their day-to-day tasks,

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their day-to-day jobs

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and their 
day-to-day masks.

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They heard 
or they felt

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where the whisper
could lead,

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and they looked 
with eyes wide

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at what that
might mean.

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And once they could see it,
they hadn't a chance

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To resist the 
sweet song

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of the deep spell
it cast.

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But the feeling it brought 
them at first glance

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was pain,

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as they lifted their eyes
on the land they had claimed.

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Since they saw
at last

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as if raised
from a dream,

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they were almost alone
on the land and the sea.

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For the trees 
had almost gone,

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and the bees
had almost gone,

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and the creatures
in their shells by the seas

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had almost gone.

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And the people felt sad
as they saw their new Earth,

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but they knew 
this was it,

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one wild chance 
for rebirth.

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Breaking new ground,
seeds rolling down,

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smell of the earth on 
your hands and your brow.

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No time for sorrow,
we're building tomorrow.

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The sound of things growing
now keeps us around.

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As the wildness grows,
and the deep wood grows,

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and the sense that the
future's come to meet you

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grows,

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There's no chance
we can rest.

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We must do 
our best.

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This moment can lead
us back home,

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that's our test.

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It starts as 
a whisper,

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a word on 
the air.

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It can't quite be heard,
but you know that it's there.

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It then spoke
like thunder.

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Until we all moved.

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And we could.

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And we did.

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And it's done.

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She's renewed.

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Help turn the whisper into a roar 
by sharing this poem today.

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You can download the illustrated book 
for free at ed.ted.com/whisper

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or keep your soul aflutter with one 
of these animated poems.