Regarde
Regarde les gens qui s’embrassent
Regarde les arbres au printemps
La naissance magique d’un arc-en-ciel
Regarde le rire d’un enfant

Regarde les mains du violoniste
Regarde les couleurs du Gauguin
Le sourire que semble faire la lune
Regarde la lumière du matin

{Refrain:}
Dis-moi, dis-moi que la vie
N’a plus d’importance
Que tout ce qu’on vit
N’a pas de sens …

Dis, Dis moi si tu l’oses
Que rien ne sert à rien
Ou si peu de chose
Qu’on en souhaite la fin

Ecoutes les anges qui te parlent
Ecoutes le chant des baleines
L’écho qui depasse les montagnes
Ecoutes les vagues qui reviennent

Regardes ce que les gens batissent
Regardes ailleurs que dans les miroirs
Même rien qu’une aile de papillon
Mais regardes tout ce qu’on peut voir…

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Olhe as pessoas que se abraçam
Olhe as árvores na primavera
O nascimento mágico de um arco-íris
Olhe o riso de uma criança

Olhe as mãos do violinista
Olhe as cores de Gauguin
O sorriso que parece fazer a lua
Olhe a luz da manhã

[Refrão]
Diga-me, diga-me que a vida
Não tem mais importância
Que tudo isto que vivemos
Não tem sentido…

Diga, diga-me se tu ousas
Que nada serve à nada
Ou tão pouca coisa
Que esperamos o fim

Escute os anjos que te falam
Escute o canto das baleias
O eco que ultrapassa montanhas
Escute as ondas que voltam

Olhe isto que as pessoas constroem
Olhe também nos espelhos
Mesmo apenas uma asa de borboleta
Mas olhe tudo isto que a gente pode ver…

and

[Narrator]
With every century
Our eyes on the universe have been opened anew
We are witness
To the very brink of time and space

[Robert Jastrow]
We must ask ourselves
We who are so proud of our accomplishments
What is our place in the cosmic perspective of life?

[Carl Sagan]
The exploration of the cosmos
Is a voyage of self discovery
As long as there have been humans
We have searched for our place in the cosmos

[Richard Dawkins]
Are there things about the universe
That will be forever beyond our grasp?
Are there things about the universe that are
Ungraspable?

[Sagan]
One of the great revelations of space exploration
Is the image of the earth, finite and lonely
Bearing the entire human species
Through the oceans of space and time

[Dawkins]
Matter flows from place to place
And momentarily comes together to be you
Some people find that thought disturbing
I find the reality thrilling

[Sagan]
As the ancient mythmakers knew
We’re children equally of the earth and the sky
In our tenure on this planet, we’ve accumulated
Dangerous evolutionary baggage

We’ve also acquired compassion for others,
Love for our children,
And a great soaring passionate intelligence
The clear tools for our continued survival

[Michio Kaku]
We could be in the middle
Of an inter-galactic conversation
And we wouldn’t even know

[Sagan]
We’ve begun at last
To wonder about our origins
Star stuff contemplating the stars
Tracing that long path

Our obligation to survive and flourish
Is owed not just to ourselves
But also to that cosmos
Ancient and vast, from which we spring…

also

[David Attenborough]
All life is related
And it enables us to construct with confidence
The complex tree that represents the history of life

Our planet, the Earth, is as far as we know
Unique in the universe; it contains life
Here plants and animals proliferate in such numbers
That we still have not even named all the different species

Darwin’s great insight revolutionized the way in which we see the world
We now understand why there are so many different species

[Carl Sagan]
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection
And we’re made of trillions of cells (Within us is a little universe)
Those are some of the things that molecules do
Given four billions years of evolution (We are, each of us, a multitude)

Now how did the molecules of life arise?

[Attenborough]
It began in the sea
Some 3 thousand million years ago
Complex chemical molecules began to clump together

These were the “seeds”
From which the tree of life developed
They were able to split, replicating themselves
As bacteria do

[Sagan]
The secrets of evolution
Are time and death
There’s an unbroken thread that stretches
From those first cells to us

(refrain)

[Jane Goodall]
There isn’t a sharp line dividing humans
from the rest of the animal kingdom
It’s a very wuzzie line

It’s a very wuzzie line,
and it’s getting wuzzier
All the time

We find animals doing things that we,
In our arrogance,
Used to think was “just human”

(refrain)

[Attenborough]
Its continued survival now rests in our hands