Great Indeed!
Hold on a second while I pick my jaw up off the floor. I just finished watching Sir David Attenborough's latest documentary masterpiece, Nature's Great Events, and, frankly, I was blown away. Hardly surprising. More than anything else, incredible works like this make me glad I own a TV at all.
Sir David's voice has been educating me about the natural world since as far back as I can remember, and educating others since long before that. He was always a weekly fixture in my childhood living room, and I doubt I will ever be able to repay the debt I owe him (and the BBC) for a lifetime of absolute wonder and awe. I've got to tip my hat, too, to my dad, who sent the DVD collection over to Japan from the U.K. Thanks, Dad!
Nature's Great Events spans six episodes, covering everything from the seasonal melting of the polar ice caps to the unbelievable transformation of the Okavango Delta from hostile desert to lush wetland paradise in just hours.
My words can't do this series justice. Not by a mile. You have to actually see it for yourselves.
Reading: Gotrek and Felix: The Third Omnibus
Watching: Hmm... nothing now that Nature's Great Events is finished.
Listening to: Heart of Rage again (trust me on this one, people)
Playing: need you even ask? ;)
Sir David's voice has been educating me about the natural world since as far back as I can remember, and educating others since long before that. He was always a weekly fixture in my childhood living room, and I doubt I will ever be able to repay the debt I owe him (and the BBC) for a lifetime of absolute wonder and awe. I've got to tip my hat, too, to my dad, who sent the DVD collection over to Japan from the U.K. Thanks, Dad!
Nature's Great Events spans six episodes, covering everything from the seasonal melting of the polar ice caps to the unbelievable transformation of the Okavango Delta from hostile desert to lush wetland paradise in just hours.
My words can't do this series justice. Not by a mile. You have to actually see it for yourselves.
Reading: Gotrek and Felix: The Third Omnibus
Watching: Hmm... nothing now that Nature's Great Events is finished.
Listening to: Heart of Rage again (trust me on this one, people)
Playing: need you even ask? ;)
Labels: Documentaries, Nature
posted by Steve Parker at
10:25 PM
6 Comments:
The weird thing for me about nature shows for me is that I always think, prior to watching, that I'm not going to enjoy them. But then, lo and behold, as I start watching, I am totally fascinated. David Attenborough is certainly the don of the natural world documentary and this one sounds like more of his fine work.
Oooh, I'll keep my beady eyes open for that one.
I've always loved watching his series and I'm not sure there's many I haven't seen (well maybe not some of the older ones)....and possibly part of the reason why I did a zoology degree.
What a strange assumption, Nick. Glad it always proves wrong for you. For me, no other type of programme even comes close to nature documentaries. I love 24, X Files and all the others as much as the next man, but there's no competition whatsoever when it comes to my number one spot.
@ Xhalax
... a zoology degree? Paint me seriously jealous. What are you going to do with it? Eh? Eh?
Oddly enough, I don't really want to do anything with animals. I enjoyed the science aspect more than anything else (I took zoology because I didn't want to do a pure science degree and I have no idea why I decided against Marine Biology).
As for what I'm going to do with my degree.....at present, nothing. But in the present climate I'm just glad I have a job at all, let alone a full time one. But truth be told, I'm a drifter, I'll coast through my life and never really get anywhere and providing that I have a means to live, I'll be happy.
Yup I own zero amibition.
Though if I ever won the lottery, I'd spend the rest of my life at university doing degrees.
I know - it's weird. I also find that watching those kinds of shows on HD are particularly rewarding. It's that sense of, this is our world and it exists.
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