Planet Earth (TV Mini Series)

Caves (2006)

David Attenborough: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : This is our planet's final frontier, and a world where only the most adventurous dare to go.

  [BASE jumper disappears into black hole] 

• David Attenborough - Narrator : Bats are not the only commuters in these Bornean caves. There's a day-shift as well.

  [approaching cacophony Swiftlets] 

• David Attenborough - Narrator : [teaming fish]  These big-eyes are the equivalent of bats - night feeders that leave the cave each evening. And like all caves-commuters, they're most vulnerable at the scheduled time of departure.

  [ominous shadows of larger fish] 

• David Attenborough - Narrator : Each year, explorers chart over 100 miles of new cave passages. But with half the world's limestone still to be explored, who knows how many Lechuguillas are still waiting to be discovered.

  [surveying stalactites in the Chandelier Ballroom chamber] 

• David Attenborough - Narrator : Of all the habitats the Planet Earth team had to deal with, undoubtedly the one that was to provide the most unpleasant working conditions was the underground world of caves.

  Chadden Hunter - Field Assistant : Look at that.

  [pointing at a hissing mass] 

  Chadden Hunter - Field Assistant : *Thousands* of cockroaches. There's juveniles in a sort of moulting phase here. And just everywhere you look it's cockroaches. Look at that. Beautiful sight.

  [getting too close they scatter] 

• David Attenborough - Narrator : The team laboriously picked their way through a maze of passages. It was crucial that nobody fell. The last time somebody broke an ankle down here, it took a team of over 100 expert cavers 3 days to get them out.

• [last lines] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : This was to be the last time that the authorities were going to allow Lechuguilla to be filmed. So this footage is the only way that most people can be transported into this magical place. Lechuguilla would be allowed to return to its pristine status as one of the most beautiful and unspoiled environments on the planet.