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They grow unhurriedly toward the sun that nourishes their foliage.
它們的枝葉不疾不徐地向著太陽生長。
They have inherited from those minuscule cyanobacteria...the power to capture light's energy.
它們從微小的古細菌繼承了吸收光線能量的能力。
They store it and feed off it, turning it into wood and leaves.
它們儲存并利用此能量并使其變成木材和樹葉。
Which then decompose into a mixture of water, mineral, vegetable and living matter.
然后又分解成水 礦物 植物和生命物質的混合體。
And so, gradually,the soils that are indispensable to life are formed.
就這樣生命不可或缺的土壤逐漸形成。
Soils are the factory of biodiversity.
土壤是生物多樣性的工廠。
They are a world of incessant activity...where microorganisms feed, dig, aerate and transform.
它們是不斷活動的世界。微生物覓食,挖掘,透氣,蛻變。
They make the humus, the fertile layer to which all life on land is linked.
它們制造腐植土,在這肥沃的土層上所有陸上生命互相緊扣。
What do we know about life on Earth?
地球上的生命我們知道什么？
How many species are we aware of?
我們認識多少品種？
A 10th of them? A hundredth perhaps?
十分之一？還是百分之一？
What do we know about the bonds that link them?
對于它們之間的相互關系我們知道什么？
The Earth is a miracle.
地球是個奇跡。
Life remains a mystery.
生命仍是個謎。
Families of animals form, united by customs and rituals that survive today.
動物的家族得以形成至今仍存的習慣和儀式使它們凝聚。
Some adapt to the nature of their pasture,and their pasture adapts to them.
有些適應了環境,有些是環境適應它們。
And both gain.
雙方都受益。
The animal sates its hunger, and the tree can blossom again.
動物得到食物而樹木能夠開花結果。
