I've only just seen this documentary and I can 100% agree with you. I shed tears watching it and was absolutely in awe of the photography and filming process. It makes you appreciate the fine woven relationship between flaura and fauna. It was truly wonderful
Me too...when I first saw this film I was overwhelmed with emotions. I sent to everyone I thought would love it...still today I'm watching it again! Marveling at our Creators magnificence.
Cameras inside the fig fruits, inside horbills nest, under the water, near crocodiles jaws i can't even imagine how much effort you guys made to catch a Glipms of this wonderful cycle of life. Thank you.
One of the best nature documentaries I have ever seen. The cinematography is exquisite, and the fact that it's focused on a single tree makes it beautifully cohesive. Please, Deeble & Stone, upload more!
The director, the cameraman, the writer and the narrator and everyone behind this masterpiece, a big applaud for bringing this wonderful piece of art to all of us !!!
Beautiful beautiful beautiful, one of a handful of the best documentaries ever, superb photography of our wonderful insect life, excellent commentary, extremely interesting and educative, thank you so much for posting. It also brings back good memories for me of Africa and Kenya. Hakuna ma ta ta.
This is one of the most beautiful documentaries I've ever seen. A harmonious calm voice, music, nothing short of a perfect combination that owes great admiration. how far can humanity get away from the collaborating forces of nature...
That's an incredible story! It's amazing how interdependent two very different creatures are in the wasp and the fig tree. I had no idea, that fig trees supplied life too so many animals! This is why we have to protect biodiversity.
@@vedantsridhar8378 I don’t believe they do it knowingly. They are driven merely to reproduce themselves and I think the pollen sticks to their undercarriage and inadvertently gets redeposited in the tree where they lay their eggs and so forth and so on.
@@christinafidance340 I thought something similar. But i found it amazing that they actually 'pack the pollen in special pockets' as the documentary tells. Absolutely amazing. Still its most likely not a conscious act since humans think insects act merely on instinct. I am not sure about that but wont debate it -what do i know-. The wasps wont forget to pollinate tho, In any case the instinct is way to strong to ignore. They simply have no other purpose, choice or idea.
@@christinafidance340 It may be all instinct, driven by genes - but pollination isn't random. The female fig wasp actively takes pollen and fills pollen 'baskets' on her thorax her natal fig - at the next fig 'garden' she digs it out and places it where it will pollinate.
Het is alles bij elkaar een groot wonder deze “Wonderbaarlijke Creatie” & zó voortreffelijk weergegeven!! Geweldig het inzicht in de Natuurlijke Samenhang van een SCHEPPING ............. die door de “modderende moderne mens” naar de knoppen gaat...........
What a beautiful, awe-inspiring illustration of the interconnectedness of the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms. Instead of all the negative environmental proselytizing in schools to even young students, it would be wonderful if elementary school children learned to appreciate the natural world from solely a positive perspective, as reflected in this film. You don't need to be taught to protect what you love: you do that instinctively.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful, one of a handful of the best documentaries ever, superb photography of our wonderful insect life, excellent commentary, extremely interesting and educative, thank you so much for posting. It also brings back good memories for me of Africa and Kenya. Hakuna ma ta ta.
Probably the best posting ever put on TH-cam about biology of which we are all of and every alive and dead thing.is a part of all is persistently interrelating and in a perpetual state of change and development.
The Queen of Trees is the most exquisite, interesting and enlightening documentary I've seen in my 60 + years of life. Thank you and God bless you! I'm going to check out your other documentary. I wish you could make a dozen more as rich as The Queen of Trees!
I AM SPEECHLESS. However, I would love to watch this documentary again when it is time for me to depart & go to The Creator that created The Queen Fig Tree.
An amazing and awe inspiring documentary of just how intricate and interdependent God has made all creatures of the earth. God is good always. Always God is good. Even when each of us must end our time on earth.
So you are saying God is simply not involved ... that nature and all in the universe is a spontaneous act of randomness? Consider that a universe with only random existence would never have order in any part of its members. Gravity would not exist. Solar systems would not exist. Spiraling galaxies would not exist. The elements and their atomic order would not exist. No, I think we may see a pattern of how God develops things in nature and call it evolution. We see God's patterns and order displayed in everything around us. @@nom5205
DEEBLE & STONE 2005 - AWESOME BEYOND BELIEF !!! WHO KNEW????? YET MILLIONS OF YEARS CO-EVOLUTIONING ... all taught to viewers in this less-than-one-hour documentary... using - seemingly - like a zillion micro-micro mini cameras plus... and ... ace crewS ... Thank you SOOOOOO much !!!
P.S. when I REWATCH this Extra extraordinary LIFE-GIVER documentary I will have pen and columned paper at hand... listing tree, flower, fig life ... Main Fig-fly life ... and ... the other pop-up MANY - MANY life-forms that make their pilgrimage to this ONE tree (type) during this filming of this specific Queen Tree. At the end, I would still have my eyes bulging as I count the HUGE NUMBER of reciprocates shown within during ONE SEASONING of figs, within the many seasons each tree celebrates. P.S.S.. LOVE the word & phrase: Co-Evolving over Millions of Years together.
Wow! Simply amazing! I never knew that a single fig tree can provide for many different animals and insects alike. A true queen. One of the best docs I’ve ever seen.
Dear Victoria and Mark, I was first enthralled and amazed by the magic of your creation when it was shown on the BBC in 2006 and I have been again nearly 15 years later.
I have learned more about nature watching this one documentary than binge watching a whole day of discovery channel and animal planet during lock down. ;)
The incredible wonders of nature never cease to amaze in their complexity and beauty! There's no way that humans can ever recreate such perfection and accurate balance, but we can indeed protect it and be part of that wonder we call mother hearth.
A masterpiece! Brings awe, tears, joy, inspiration, and all that makes us humanimals, mammals, and sentients to the surface. A million blessings to all involved in the production, distribution, and sharing of this beautiful life epic. May all beings be happy. May all being be free. May all beings find peace.
the cinamatography in this doc is just freaking amazing,my jaw hung open damn near the whole time ! so good! everything is done cgi now. this took months or years to film, just awesome!
I was absolutely mesmerised from beginning to end. What an incredible story. Absolutely one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a very long time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I remember watching it in a biology class 6 years ago and being fascinated, but then I couldn't remember the title... Glad to have come across it again! :)
I was lured out of sleep with the beautiful music and the voice of Ian Holm. A true master piece. Every single animal has a God given instinct. Creation is an intelligent plan of God. Thanks guys for this wonderful work. The best I have ever seen.
The tiny wasp's final act is to repay her debt to the queen, to unpack the precious pollen, and fertilize the flowers. It is her gift, and the culmination of millions of years of co-evolution between wasp and tree.
One of the most beautiful documentaries that will bring tears to your eyes. This must be required for all students to watch. The photography is spectacular and riveting. Seems miraculous that it was possible to make!
If there is one thing I will remember for many years to come is that butterflies can get drunk! You learn something new every day. Such an amazing documentary. Thank you for posting it.
The songs which are in Swahili language that connects Tanzania and East African people are amazing, The documentary is well marinated with extraordinary narrations
AS amazed I was in the cycle and relationship between the tree, the insects and animals in this documentary is my awe for the people who made this documentary possible. Kudos to all of you who have the patience and the resourcefulness to capture it all.
This video is an example of why you don't need Ultra HD to vividly capture the beauty of a landscape. The camera men and production team are very talented to be able to pull this imagery off successfully.
Absolutely gorgeous doc. Brilliant photography, an amazing story and narrated by someone with a lovely soothing voice. Beauty & horror are here, the 2 sides of nature.
You need to watch it again! You SEE only competition, not the intricate cooperative community which is the real story. A species that "succeeds" too well can destroy the plants and animals upon whom their own lives depend. Humans are like King Midas, who wanted gold so much he prayed that everything he touched would turn to gold. Soon, he starved. Then he inadvertantly turned his daughter into a golden statue. By trying to convert everything into profits for the next quarter, we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. It will be impossible to replace all the FREE SERVICES THAT NATURE PROVIDES US. Science STILL doesn't even know all the insects and how they maintain a balance with other life forms. Yet we want ALL of every resource, leaving behind only a wasteland. We won't know how much we have destroyed when we kill a keystone species, but the cascading effects over decades will be horrific. If you believe that God created each species, why do you destroy the art He created? To destroy the masterpiece of Nature's intricate web of interdependence is blasphemous!
This just randomly popped up after s video and I'm so glad I watched. What an incredible ecosystem this tree has created. Incredible little documentary.
*@F*CK tRump* Playing the devil's advocate for a minute.......Trump has his use.......for once in the two(one?) party state that is the U.S. , since the coup of '63 , the U.S. electorate has a *real* choice and will force the "democrats" to be less to the right of the political spectrum ....For decades in essence it didn't make very much difference which of the two allowed political parties occupied the white house ; they both serve "Our Fine Military" first and foremost ,and allowe it to grab the biggest percentage from the people's treasury .....both put "Our Fine Military" on a pedestal, which would cause a scandal in most normal democracies where more than two parties are allowed to function ,and the military is all but invisible like it should be . A west European type labour or social democrat party will never ever be allowed in the nation that proclaims to be the guarantor of democracy ........Why don't we hear most of the main U.S. news media complain about that ? ....because most are in the pockets of far right corporations .
This is so beautiful and poetic... I'm crying at the ending which is so very poignant. It took millions of years to develop all these bonds; interdependencies; communities and, yet, us humans, destroy it all in decades... This intricate web of life that we so ignore and destroy must be protected. It is bigger than ourselves. It is bigger than our species.
@Rebecca Farley I'm sorry for missing it, but where does Daniela express a desire to worship the act of creation? I read her words to be an expression of profound respect and of enlightenment of the connections life has shared over millenia, and a lament for man's foolish exploitation and destruction of the Creator's work. She isn't worshiping anything but the Creator by expressing her admiration for His work and the shame of humanity's foolishness. Her amazement lies in observing the Creator's wonder of life in all it's intricacies. See the good before the bad for life is better without negative criticism. Be safe, be happy. :)
What a great documentary. How can I feel so peaceful watching things eat each other? Probably because of the depth it gets into with amazing photography and details. But it shakes me to realize we bulldoze our way through much more than just the trees. Something I've always been aware of, but to have shown so perfectly is an eye opener. Thank you for this story of life's interdependence.
Thank you for sharing your personal story, as well as that of the person who replied. It's wonderful to see the intimate interaction with this magnificent tree. Best wishes from the US! 💖
That blows my mind. In Arabia, it's integral to daily life as a cheap, sweet, affordable snack, but it's great with meat and salad too. I'll bet it's do well in fermentation or pickling. Food stores so long when it's pickled. Is pickling a part of African tradition anywhere on the continent? I've never seen it featured in discussions about food.
A really magnificent video. We had wild figs in our yard in South Africa that we called the Cape fig which also grew figs in bunches like this one but never realized how may different creatures it fed and how it was dispersed by those tiny wasps. Thank you.
And I have changed from witnessing life through this cameras lens and the knowledge of the man that’s telling the story of this miracle that is our planet and what we call life. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to make it and giving it to us free on TH-cam
By far my fav film and Mark Deeble and Vicky Stone, are phenomenal story tellers. Best of the best. Please watch The Elephant Queen....just as stunning and took 10 years to make.
This is a masterpiece, it doesn´t matter how the concept of evolution affects to anybody, it is just the meaning of life itself that opened its ways through space and time, for eons, and it will continue till the sun stops to shine...
+F. M.M you really don't know what you are talking about do you lol just cause it sounded cool in your head doesn't mean it is lol moron ! meaning of life itself opened its way through space and time !!?? omg really !! until the sun stops shining hahaha!!! wow that really sounds stupid hahaha!!!
+patman0250 maybe the grammar was not correct but that does not make his personal thoughts idiotic. Everyone and anyone can write a poem by just speaking..er wait..patman is not going to like where this one is going because he has a giant tree trunk up his ass.
God is so amazing! To come up with something so important for so many animals and critters to participate in to make it all work! God’s mind snd thoughts are so complex! Great video.
It brought tears to my eyes to see how wonderful nature can be! It's a contract built and kept for generations. A feeding, breeding and growing ground for so many creatures. Kudos to the queen of trees! Kudos to the team making this marvelous piece of masterpiece. Thank you so much!!!!
so Amazing; yet these types of documentaries break my heart a little because they expose the very intricate, and delicate cycles of interdependent nature; at once there is wonder and then fear of what can and is being lost.
Thats a nice swahili song 16:17.."Tazama! (watch) Mvua yaja (rain is coming!)Mvua yaleta uzima (Rain brings Life) Tazama ! Mvua yananyesha (watch, rain is falling) wacha huyu ume acha (stop, you have stopped)Tazama mvua yananyesha ,manyuyu yata poa katika matawi! (watch, rain is pouring ,rain showers! will rest upon the leaves) :)
I never thought I’d go through such a rollercoaster of emotions just for one tree. This was suuuuper fascinating.
I've only just seen this documentary and I can 100% agree with you. I shed tears watching it and was absolutely in awe of the photography and filming process. It makes you appreciate the fine woven relationship between flaura and fauna. It was truly wonderful
Me too...when I first saw this film I was overwhelmed with emotions. I sent to everyone I thought would love it...still today I'm watching it again! Marveling at our Creators magnificence.
Other than the fact he lied about being millions of years of evolution no such thing
Cameras inside the fig fruits, inside horbills nest, under the water, near crocodiles jaws i can't even imagine how much effort you guys made to catch a Glipms of this wonderful cycle of life. Thank you.
I’m in absolute awe with what I just watched. What a beautiful, brilliant documentary. This should’ve won an Oscar. Seriously.
One of the best nature documentaries I have ever seen. The cinematography is exquisite, and the fact that it's focused on a single tree makes it beautifully cohesive. Please, Deeble & Stone, upload more!
thank you 🙏 so beautiful
this is a magnificent piece of art
A living, amazing miracle. Can trees ever be valued, protected and appreciated enough?
The director, the cameraman, the writer and the narrator and everyone behind this masterpiece, a big applaud for bringing this wonderful piece of art to all of us !!!
"The Queen of Trees" made me weep in awe. (literally)
What a film!
Absolutely mind boggling. This documentary is extraordinary in every way…from photography, editing, script writing, presentation, to music.
Without a doubt, this is one of the most fascinating documentaries I have ever seen
I agree! Beautiful!
Beautiful beautiful beautiful, one of a handful of the best documentaries ever, superb photography of our wonderful insect life, excellent commentary, extremely interesting and educative, thank you so much for posting.
It also brings back good memories for me of Africa and Kenya. Hakuna ma ta ta.
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To Mark Feeble and Victoria Stone, this was truly an amazing piece of art, a magnificent documentary, thank you.
If any video actually deserves millions of views this is it.
This is one of the most beautiful documentaries I've ever seen. A harmonious calm voice, music, nothing short of a perfect combination that owes great admiration. how far can humanity get away from the collaborating forces of nature...
One of the only nature documentaries that rivals BBC's best programs. It really is a masterpiece.
Still British though, got to hand it to them, they make the best natural history programs in the world.
doja rivals - no it leaves it in the dust !
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This is, without the shadow of a doubt, the best nature documentary I've ever watched
Being a documentary film maker, a reformist and a harsh art critic, this film is by far one of the best I have seen! Delight to brain and mind!
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Yes, this documentary is perfectly made!
Absolutely fantastic. We were delighted watching this documentary. Stunning
What a wonderful wonderful documentary excellent excellent done God's beautiful creation give him all praise
That's an incredible story! It's amazing how interdependent two very different creatures are in the wasp and the fig tree. I had no idea, that fig trees supplied life too so many animals! This is why we have to protect biodiversity.
Yeah. What if the fig wasps forget to pollinate? Do you think that is even possible, or it is in their genes?
@@vedantsridhar8378 I don’t believe they do it knowingly. They are driven merely to reproduce themselves and I think the pollen sticks to their undercarriage and inadvertently gets redeposited in the tree where they lay their eggs and so forth and so on.
@@christinafidance340 I thought something similar. But i found it amazing that they actually 'pack the pollen in special pockets' as the documentary tells. Absolutely amazing. Still its most likely not a conscious act since humans think insects act merely on instinct. I am not sure about that but wont debate it -what do i know-.
The wasps wont forget to pollinate tho, In any case the instinct is way to strong to ignore. They simply have no other purpose, choice or idea.
@@christinafidance340 It may be all instinct, driven by genes - but pollination isn't random. The female fig wasp actively takes pollen and fills pollen 'baskets' on her thorax her natal fig - at the next fig 'garden' she digs it out and places it where it will pollinate.
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Het is alles bij elkaar een groot wonder deze “Wonderbaarlijke Creatie” & zó voortreffelijk weergegeven!! Geweldig het inzicht in de Natuurlijke Samenhang van een SCHEPPING ............. die door de “modderende moderne mens” naar de knoppen gaat...........
What a beautiful, awe-inspiring illustration of the interconnectedness of the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms. Instead of all the negative environmental proselytizing in schools to even young students, it would be wonderful if elementary school children learned to appreciate the natural world from solely a positive perspective, as reflected in this film. You don't need to be taught to protect what you love: you do that instinctively.
beautiful comment.
As an environmental educator and activist, I couldn't agree more. So well said.
The beauty of Mother Nature!!!
This moves one to tears.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful, one of a handful of the best documentaries ever, superb photography of our wonderful insect life, excellent commentary, extremely interesting and educative, thank you so much for posting.
It also brings back good memories for me of Africa and Kenya. Hakuna ma ta ta.
I grow with this tree 🌳 and i ate the fruit and we made chewing gum lt is the provider of food from human to small microorganisms.
What a wonderful phrase!
Probably the best posting ever put on TH-cam about biology of which we are all of and every alive and dead thing.is a part of all is persistently interrelating and in a perpetual state of change and development.
The Queen of Trees is the most exquisite, interesting and enlightening documentary I've seen in my 60 + years of life. Thank you and God bless you! I'm going to check out your other documentary. I wish you could make a dozen more as rich as The Queen of Trees!
Absolutely agree. Like a beautiful story you don't want to ever end. Truly exquisite. Heartfelt admiration and gratitude to the creators. Bravo!
The Elephant Queen is wonderful too.
I can't even begin to understand why so many people disliked this lovely documentary. I must be blind, because I really cannot see why...
I AM SPEECHLESS. However, I would love to watch this documentary again when it is time for me to depart & go to The Creator that created The Queen Fig Tree.
Amazing story! What a royal tree! Beautiful and bountiful! Thanks.
An amazing and awe inspiring documentary of just how intricate and interdependent God has made all creatures of the earth. God is good always. Always God is good. Even when each of us must end our time on earth.
We serve a mighty Lord God indeed. What all He created in this world, we’ve seen but a fraction.
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Yup, & just think of what he has for us after we pass our final exam. Its something to work really hard for.
evolution
So you are saying God is simply not involved ... that nature and all in the universe is a spontaneous act of randomness? Consider that a universe with only random existence would never have order in any part of its members. Gravity would not exist. Solar systems would not exist. Spiraling galaxies would not exist. The elements and their atomic order would not exist. No, I think we may see a pattern of how God develops things in nature and call it evolution. We see God's patterns and order displayed in everything around us. @@nom5205
The Best: most detailed and broad documentary ever about the fig! Beautiful Beatiful!
I never knew a tree could tell such a tale, this is one of the best put together documentaries I've ever watched; very well done!!!
i think we've watched this at least 5 times ... it's excellent!
Thanks this is truly amazing
Truly wonderful and fascinating!
💯💋🖤🙏👍😍😬😅🙏🖤🖤🖤🖤💯💯💯💯👍😍
I agree.
Impressive documentary. Worthy of an Oscar or Grammy. Nature is so complex. And God Almighty, the Creator of all things, must take all the Glory!
First time I'm watching Girrafe as a villain, who damages the poor tree 🌳
What a narration... 👏👏👏👏
DEEBLE & STONE 2005 - AWESOME BEYOND BELIEF !!!
WHO KNEW?????
YET MILLIONS OF YEARS CO-EVOLUTIONING ... all taught to viewers in this less-than-one-hour documentary... using - seemingly - like a zillion micro-micro mini cameras plus... and ... ace crewS ...
Thank you SOOOOOO much !!!
P.S. when I REWATCH this Extra extraordinary LIFE-GIVER documentary I will have pen and columned paper at hand... listing tree, flower, fig life ... Main Fig-fly life ... and ... the other pop-up MANY - MANY life-forms that make their pilgrimage to this ONE tree (type) during this filming of this specific Queen Tree. At the end, I would still have my eyes bulging as I count the HUGE NUMBER of reciprocates shown within during ONE SEASONING of figs, within the many seasons each tree celebrates. P.S.S.. LOVE the word & phrase: Co-Evolving over Millions of Years together.
Wow! Simply amazing! I never knew that a single fig tree can provide for many different animals and insects alike. A true queen. One of the best docs I’ve ever seen.
Me Too!
Just beautiful and amazing. We humans are just passing by. And This is what will live on, the true inhabitants of the planet.
Dear Victoria and Mark, I was first enthralled and amazed by the magic of your creation when it was shown on the BBC in 2006 and I have been again nearly 15 years later.
We love that it evoked the same response - thank you for taking the time to let us know!
@@deeblestone9109. And great to have Ian Holm/Bilbo Baggins as narrator!!!
If that is the Queen of Africas Trees, Thee “Baobab” must be the King !!! Amazing Beautiful Documentary, Thank You 🎥🦒🐘🦓🐆🌲🍃
I have learned more about nature watching this one documentary than binge watching a whole day of discovery channel and animal planet during lock down. ;)
Discover 10 years ago would have shown this, now its just a pile of fig wasp crap.
Surprising relationship of trees and insects...... Nature.... A magic
Makes me feel humble and homesick. Respecting nature and missing Wangari Mathai.
Wangari mathai remains to be the only human being whom cared for environment
@@rosemarykaloki7639 add ''in Kenya'' and still you're not right. There are many others, but they're ignored....
Wonderful nature documentary and without the intrusive ads. Makes being alive on our planet just a little more special. 🌍
This is one of the best nature documentaries I have ever seen. Truly a masterpiece 👏
The incredible wonders of nature never cease to amaze in their complexity and beauty! There's no way that humans can ever recreate such perfection and accurate balance, but we can indeed protect it and be part of that wonder we call mother hearth.
This video probably has some of the best footage of anything anywhere, ever made. Marvelous.
AGREE
It would be even better in HD. Just imagine...
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MAGA..........Make Africa Great Again, We love you Trump, Keep up the good work.
Right
Agree 100%
I have watched this a number of times across the years and am still moved by it. What a story: what miracle the natural world is.
The making of this documentary is worthy of making a documentary of.
AGREE
It should be
*@ivoman7* Good point! This is one of the few docus worthy of a revisit .
Definitely!
Love it worthy watch. Screw the virus, enjoy life for an hour or 2.
A masterpiece! Brings awe, tears, joy, inspiration, and all that makes us humanimals, mammals, and sentients to the surface. A million blessings to all involved in the production, distribution, and sharing of this beautiful life epic. May all beings be happy. May all being be free. May all beings find peace.
What an astounding story! And such beautiful photography. It leaves me in awe of the complexity and intricacy of nature.
Superb job , exposing the deep secrets of nature !
سبحان اللہ وبحمدہ سبحان اللہ العظیم۔۔۔
the cinamatography in this doc is just freaking amazing,my jaw hung open damn near the whole time ! so good! everything is done cgi now. this took months or years to film, just awesome!
Stunning. I can’t think of anything else to say. Another rare gem discovered on TH-cam
I agree
It
Best documentary that I've ever seen.
Can some please recommend something just as spectacular as this documentary?
THIS FILM WAS VERY ENTERTAINING ENJOYABLE.. IMAGINE THE FOOTAGE THEY HAVE
I was absolutely mesmerised from beginning to end. What an incredible story. Absolutely one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a very long time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I remember watching it in a biology class 6 years ago and being fascinated, but then I couldn't remember the title... Glad to have come across it again! :)
I was lured out of sleep with the beautiful music and the voice of Ian Holm. A true master piece.
Every single animal has a God given instinct. Creation is an intelligent plan of God.
Thanks guys for this wonderful work. The best I have ever seen.
Nothing at all to do with a God. Grow up and leave those childish notions behind. Or do you still believe in Santa?
The tiny wasp's final act
is to repay her debt to the queen,
to unpack the precious pollen,
and fertilize the flowers.
It is her gift,
and the culmination of millions of years
of co-evolution between wasp and tree.
One of the most beautiful documentaries that will bring tears to your eyes. This must be required for all students to watch. The photography is spectacular and riveting. Seems miraculous that it was possible to make!
I saw this on PBS years ago... Maybe the best nature program I have ever seen...!
If there is one thing I will remember for many years to come is that butterflies can get drunk! You learn something new every day. Such an amazing documentary. Thank you for posting it.
Lol. Yes! I'll be watching them much more closely from now on.
Yeah 👍..I felt the same way...but truely fascinating documentary ...
@Nick S damn wtf
true, I've seen mocking birds fly upside down on fermenting plums.
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The songs which are in Swahili language that connects Tanzania and East African people are amazing, The documentary is well marinated with extraordinary narrations
AS amazed I was in the cycle and relationship between the tree, the insects and animals in this documentary is my awe for the people who made this documentary possible. Kudos to all of you who have the patience and the resourcefulness to capture it all.
Produced by the BBC and Narrated by Ian Holm - Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
This video is an example of why you don't need Ultra HD to vividly capture the beauty of a landscape. The camera men and production team are very talented to be able to pull this imagery off successfully.
Absolutely gorgeous doc. Brilliant photography, an amazing story and narrated by someone with a lovely soothing voice. Beauty & horror are here, the 2 sides of nature.
The person who is reading this comment , i wish you great success , health, love and happiness !
Thank you so much 🙏
Likewise
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Amazing story, our planet is just incredible. Great to see a clean living river that hasn't yet been turned into a stream of shit and plastic.
Wow!!! I've learned more on TH-cam documentaries then in some of my schooling.. what a shame this isn't taught in schools.
used this to teach for 15 years
Nature's Game of Thrones.
Survival of the fittest.
Best documentary ever.
+Jason Goh By definition You must be a racist if you believe in Survival of the Fittest. and Evolution
+Jaygo Tee No. This is no God's work. This is evolution.
@@EarthAngel504 you sound like an idiot
You need to watch it again! You SEE only competition, not the intricate cooperative community which is the real story. A species that "succeeds" too well can destroy the plants and animals upon whom their own lives depend.
Humans are like King Midas, who wanted gold so much he prayed that everything he touched would turn to gold. Soon, he starved. Then he inadvertantly turned his daughter into a golden statue. By trying to convert everything into profits for the next quarter, we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. It will be impossible to replace all the FREE SERVICES THAT NATURE PROVIDES US. Science STILL doesn't even know all the insects and how they maintain a balance with other life forms. Yet we want ALL of every resource, leaving behind only a wasteland.
We won't know how much we have destroyed when we kill a keystone species, but the cascading effects over decades will be horrific.
If you believe that God created each species, why do you destroy the art He created? To destroy the masterpiece of Nature's intricate web of interdependence is blasphemous!
This just randomly popped up after s video and I'm so glad I watched.
What an incredible ecosystem this tree has created. Incredible little documentary.
The best nature documentary I´ve ever seen. Thank you for uploading this fantastic program.
Amazing and amazingly shot... Mind blowing. Seriously in awe
Big salute to the makers of this documentary.
A TRULY EXQUISITE
NATURE
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The soundtrack to this is lovely.
Hittingthe like button is not enough for this documentary. Beautiful and very educational. Thank you for making such masterpiece
I couldn't agree more! Beautifully executed!
And this is why pesticides are so dangerous, nature is very complex
@@mohammand22samier22 Can you not dude
@ This is true
@@MeowPau Don't be a pussy
@ better stop Monsanto ;)
*@F*CK tRump* Playing the devil's advocate for a minute.......Trump has his use.......for once in the two(one?) party state that is the U.S. , since the coup of '63 , the U.S. electorate has a *real* choice and will force the "democrats" to be less to the right of the political spectrum ....For decades in essence it didn't make very much difference which of the two allowed political parties occupied the white house ; they both serve "Our Fine Military" first and foremost ,and allowe it to grab the biggest percentage from the people's treasury .....both put "Our Fine Military" on a pedestal, which would cause a scandal in most normal democracies where more than two parties are allowed to function ,and the military is all but invisible like it should be .
A west European type labour or social democrat party will never ever be allowed in the nation that proclaims to be the guarantor of democracy ........Why don't we hear most of the main U.S. news media complain about that ? ....because most are in the pockets of far right corporations .
GORGEOUS INDEED!!!! LOVED IT ALL ! NATURE AT ITS VERY BEST INDEED !!! THANKS. FROM U.K.(2021).
This is so beautiful and poetic... I'm crying at the ending which is so very poignant. It took millions of years to develop all these bonds; interdependencies; communities and, yet, us humans, destroy it all in decades... This intricate web of life that we so ignore and destroy must be protected. It is bigger than ourselves. It is bigger than our species.
@Rebecca Farley I'm sorry for missing it, but where does Daniela express a desire to worship the act of creation? I read her words to be an expression of profound respect and of enlightenment of the connections life has shared over millenia, and a lament for man's foolish exploitation and destruction of the Creator's work. She isn't worshiping anything but the Creator by expressing her admiration for His work and the shame of humanity's foolishness. Her amazement lies in observing the Creator's wonder of life in all it's intricacies.
See the good before the bad for life is better without negative criticism.
Be safe, be happy. :)
@Rebecca Farley your reply was one of the worst and most idiotic things I have EVER read on youtube.
It is protected. In fact, this very tree is considered holy for the people living there.
What a great documentary. How can I feel so peaceful watching things eat each other? Probably because of the depth it gets into with amazing photography and details. But it shakes me to realize we bulldoze our way through much more than just the trees. Something I've always been aware of, but to have shown so perfectly is an eye opener.
Thank you for this story of life's interdependence.
We used the milky stink to make temporary hinna mix with tea leaves. I am kenyan. The tree is resilient as hell. We never ate the figs though 😂
intuitive self-love when they are dry they are very sweet
Thank you for sharing your personal story, as well as that of the person who replied. It's wonderful to see the intimate interaction with this magnificent tree. Best wishes from the US! 💖
motorcop505 ...stay safe
#corona
That blows my mind. In Arabia, it's integral to daily life as a cheap, sweet, affordable snack, but it's great with meat and salad too. I'll bet it's do well in fermentation or pickling. Food stores so long when it's pickled. Is pickling a part of African tradition anywhere on the continent? I've never seen it featured in discussions about food.
Are the dogs edible with the worms in them?
I loved this when I saw it on television, and now I am overjoyed that you have posted it here on TH-cam! An amazing film.
A really magnificent video. We had wild figs in our yard in South Africa that we called the Cape fig which also grew figs in bunches like this one but never realized how may different creatures it fed and how it was dispersed by those tiny wasps. Thank you.
Wow! That has to be one of the best nature documentaries I have EVER seen! No wonder even Attenborough-san is impressed.
And I have changed from witnessing life through this cameras lens and the knowledge of the man that’s telling the story of this miracle that is our planet and what we call life. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to make it and giving it to us free on TH-cam
I don't know what kind of people dislike this kind of videos..
This is one of the best things I have ever seen in my life!
By far my fav film and Mark Deeble and Vicky Stone, are phenomenal story tellers. Best of the best. Please watch The Elephant Queen....just as stunning and took 10 years to make.
I love ‘Elephant Queen,’ and I’d forgotten I’d saved it. Thank you for reminding me, rewatching that after this one. I love both so much.
This is a masterpiece, it doesn´t matter how the concept of evolution affects to anybody, it is just the meaning of life itself that opened its ways through space and time, for eons, and it will continue till the sun stops to shine...
+F. M.M you really don't know what you are talking about do you lol just cause it sounded cool in your head doesn't mean it is lol moron ! meaning of life itself opened its way through space and time !!?? omg really !! until the sun stops shining hahaha!!! wow that really sounds stupid hahaha!!!
+patman0250 maybe the grammar was not correct but that does not make his personal thoughts idiotic. Everyone and anyone can write a poem by just speaking..er wait..patman is not going to like where this one is going because he has a giant tree trunk up his ass.
+trialite Games end what life?
wonderful, beautiful, amazing. thank you so much for the great documentary.
This is amazing! So intricate, makes you appreciate the web of life.
God is so amazing! To come up with something so important for so many animals and critters to participate in to make it all work! God’s mind snd thoughts are so complex! Great video.
Fabulous story . . . one of the best docs I have watched! Thank you!
One of the best doc ever, without annoying, dramatic, too loud music. Amazing.
Wow this is a fantastic Documentary. I have never seen anything like this one. Just awesome. Thank's so much for this.
It brought tears to my eyes to see how wonderful nature can be! It's a contract built and kept for generations. A feeding, breeding and growing ground for so many creatures. Kudos to the queen of trees! Kudos to the team making this marvelous piece of masterpiece. Thank you so much!!!!
Absolutely loved this documentary. This is my favourite tree.
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Absolutely beautiful !!!! Thank you for this documentary. Shows the interdependency and the intricate balance in nature.
Truly a brilliant film.The photography is as amazing as the story of nature herself! 💜
so Amazing; yet these types of documentaries break my heart a little because they expose the very intricate, and delicate cycles of interdependent nature; at once there is wonder and then fear of what can and is being lost.
I'm not worthy of such high quality documentries! Such detailed graphics, great features and information are fit for the gods and God Himself!
Thats a nice swahili song 16:17.."Tazama! (watch) Mvua yaja (rain is coming!)Mvua yaleta uzima (Rain brings Life) Tazama ! Mvua yananyesha (watch, rain is falling) wacha huyu ume acha (stop, you have stopped)Tazama mvua yananyesha ,manyuyu yata poa katika matawi! (watch, rain is pouring ,rain showers! will rest upon the leaves) :)
It is really beautiful ~~~~~
Thank you for sharing, this is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched, I had no idea about this mutualistic relationship.