The new Life on Earth is as glorious as the first. The care of family, friends, and a trusted therapist, practicing mindfulness, engaging in calming hobbies like yoga, journaling, walking in nature, or listening to music—these are just a few of the strategies that can ease the overwhelm. I enjoy a good, long Attenborogh read.
Sedatingly relaxing, and yet, stimulating. The subtle, witty humor is priceless. Sadly, intelligent, entertaining, and informative intellectuals such as Attenborogh, Sagan, Chrichton, and C. Clark are almost exctinct. I play your Audiobooks to my daughter, Mr. Attenborough, so she may gain the wonderful gift of incite into the natural world you gave to me. I had no idea when I downloaded this easy to miss book that it would bring as much pleasure and knowledge into my life.
It is a book that tells what is arguable the most important story on the planet earth: how does life happen. Or perhaps more egocentrically: How did humans happen.
I'm not sure if Attenborough set out to tell the story of how humans happen but he starts with the primordial soup on earth 4 billion years ago and moves through invertebrates, vertebrates, reptiles, birds, mammals, and then starts zeroing in on primates and ends with us. It's a lovely story and one that we think we know but there is plenty in this book that will remind you of things you thought you once knew and plenty that you've never heard before.
Example: there is this frog that gets eggs implanted in scratches under the skin of its back where the eggs mature and then burst forth when they are ready. Forgive my imprecision -- I'm often listening late at night -- and it's soothing -- I listen to it over and over. Attenborough's voice is mesmerizing and the story he tells is of immense importance -- we are the only species on this planet that has altered the planet to the degree that we have.
He stop short of writing a global warming polemic -- but I hope we will one day. I'll listen to that too! A quick revisit of the biology you forgot from school read by Dave. He uses interesting examples to illustrate ideas. Starts w the beginning of life and follows animal and plant biology forward from simple to complex life.
And I got to listen to 13 hrs of DA reading to me. Worth listening to all the way through even if you're familiar with the BBC series. As David Attenborough says, this is indeed the greatest story ever told. A beautifully narrated tale of the evolution of all animals told chronologically from the beginning of time up to today, covering all living thing, why they are the way they are and why they do what they do. As with all of his books and shows you are guaranteed to learn something new through his interesting tales of weird and wonderful creatures and their quirky behaviours.
This is a very well written book from David Attenborough, detailing the history of life on Earth, from the very beginning.
He takes us through all of the developments of life, like adapting to living on land, in an easy to understand manner, always giving evolutionary explanations as to why things happened the way they did. His performance is perfect as usual, he speaks clearly, understandably.
Five star book, recommended to everyone. My favorite "go to" David Attenborough audiobook. Every chapter is a gem, and each start with the sounds of nature. Well written and presented in that wonderful voice. TJ Granack. Sir David has a voice that is both enthralling and soothing.
The content is fascinating as well. If you are a diehard fan of Sir David Attenborough, then you will love this book!! I highly recommend it! I was some what sceptical about this at first David Attenborough's beguiling voice in the sample convinced me to try it and I am so glad that I did. I cannot recommend this highly enough. I know I shall play it over again and again as it makes such wonderful listening, and the word pictures he creates more than compensate for the lack of photographic imagery.
In a way the time sequences of the millions of years make more sense. This is a simply wonderful book. And the wonderful David Attenborough both writes a book that blows your mind and makes you look at everything around you with the an ever more increased wonder then you could have ever thought possible in a voice that will make you listen, feel relaxed and allow your mind to gently explode and splatter on the walls around you.
Whereas his documentaries make you watch and wonder at amazing and wondrous miracles of life, this puts everything into context with a narrative that tells us how we actually got here. It begins with how we are able to understand the past through fossils and now through genetic decoding. The Grand Canyon layers of rock beautifully explain some of the story and stretch back millions of years.
And then plants and trees and early marine, sea like creatures through to dinosaurs which were wiped out in the fifth and currently last mass extinction event. Genes crested ever more evolving and complicated life. Then we learn how flowers create petals and colour - so they could develop more ingenious methods to transplant seeds by insects. We learn how ants know to create a colony that determines who becomes a soldier ant, a worker or a queen.
Ants can communicate with one another to form a hive that is dependent on everyone knowing their role in their place and how they work with one another for this to occur. Salmon can leave its place of birth, swim out into the ocean and when they become fully formed adult return back to its original river that it came from by a sense of smell salmon with damaged nostrils struggle to return to home , chemically change from seawater to freshwater and returned to the place they came from..
Then the mail salmon changes into a fighting machine and breeds with her mate and then all the salmon fall apart and die, never to return to the ocean again but mate with a female and then having laid eggs which will perform the same feat over and over again as the parents body falls to pieces and dies. Absolutely loved listening to this. So glad for the recommendation. I listened to this for about two hours every night as I was going to sleep.
David Attenborough truly brings the animals and their habitats alive, as well as reminding us all about the impact we humans are having on the natural world through hunting, deforestation and climate change. A truly brilliant book that I cannot recommend enough. I highly recommend this audio book.
It is very insightful, full of interesting facts about how life has evolved and shaped modern day environments. The story is already know by most of us. As usual when David Attenborough is involved it's told in a engaging and captivating style, with the best voice a narrator could have and with so much liveliness that one at times see pictures instead of just hearing words.
Truly recommend. An amazing book. I cannot recommend it any higher. Download and listen to this now. Wonderful, amazing. From the 'primordial soup' David Attenborough guides the listener, with his unique talent for explaining the most complicated things easily, to our legacy Pollution and our talent for making creatures extinct. Such a great book and David narrates so well, I may as well have been watching the tv show. Interesting and educational.
This is my first book on this app and I love it. It is a great book and I can not fault it. Whilst I won't fault David Attenborough's distinctive and instantly recognisable narrative style and gentle background sounds that add to the audiobook's ambience, I disliked the author's didactic and prescriptive tone.
A certain perspective on the nature of existence is stated as unequivocal fact in a tone that seems to brook no argument- and yet I'm all the more interested to hear counter-arguments from Christian scientists who hold similarly high credentials to this esteemed gentleman.
The facts are interesting as far as they go, and there is much to be learned from one who has seen and experienced so much of this world and its inhabitants. But there is also much to be questioned and queried, and alas there is no opportunity for that here. Add to Cart failed. Please try again later. Add to Wish List failed. Remove from wishlist failed. Adding to library failed. Please try again. Follow podcast failed. Unfollow podcast failed.
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