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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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