WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.950 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.950 --> 00:00:13.040 align:middle line:84% So here are-- for a couple years, 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:18.470 align:middle line:84% I was working to save coral reef of Okinawa. 00:00:18.470 --> 00:00:22.205 align:middle line:84% So many times visiting coral reef. 00:00:22.205 --> 00:00:27.730 align:middle line:90% 00:00:27.730 --> 00:00:31.420 align:middle line:90% A song of coral. 00:00:31.420 --> 00:00:35.500 align:middle line:90% Me, coral, a miracle. 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:39.070 align:middle line:90% Born in warm ocean. 00:00:39.070 --> 00:00:43.000 align:middle line:90% Grow and become a bone. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.660 align:middle line:90% The bone changes into a stone. 00:00:47.660 --> 00:00:53.260 align:middle line:90% An island, a dream, the sun. 00:00:53.260 --> 00:00:57.160 align:middle line:90% The sun transforms into wind. 00:00:57.160 --> 00:00:58.170 align:middle line:90% God. 00:00:58.170 --> 00:01:02.440 align:middle line:90% God metamorphoses into seaweed. 00:01:02.440 --> 00:01:10.060 align:middle line:84% Seaweed raise a tiny blue planet, the Earth. 00:01:10.060 --> 00:01:14.600 align:middle line:90% The Earth now brings up to life. 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:18.230 align:middle line:84% At the end of the journey, the Earth 00:01:18.230 --> 00:01:22.790 align:middle line:90% comes back to me, to coral. 00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:30.560 align:middle line:84% Poseidon holds in his hand the net of life and death. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:35.660 align:middle line:84% You touch the thread of being, open 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:40.400 align:middle line:90% by the underwater musician. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:47.120 align:middle line:84% Moby Dick supervises an ocean wide aquarium. 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:56.100 align:middle line:84% You see in it Portuguese man of war, tuna fish, coelacanths, 00:01:56.100 --> 00:02:03.210 align:middle line:84% and the skeleton of 20th century Homo sapiens. 00:02:03.210 --> 00:02:10.710 align:middle line:84% Mermaid spring rainbows from icebergs. 00:02:10.710 --> 00:02:17.520 align:middle line:84% Listen, a rainbow song of Steller's sea cow 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:25.330 align:middle line:84% exterminated by men in 18th century at the Aleutian. 00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:32.590 align:middle line:84% Buddha Shakyamuni sit on waves floating in his eyes. 00:02:32.590 --> 00:02:38.020 align:middle line:90% You realize your coral nature. 00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:46.060 align:middle line:84% Day by day, rising tide and falling tide for nothing. 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:50.920 align:middle line:84% Offshore there runs an ocean river 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:56.140 align:middle line:84% from the tropics to your kitchen. 00:02:56.140 --> 00:03:03.070 align:middle line:84% The sun and the moon whispering to your footprint day 00:03:03.070 --> 00:03:05.170 align:middle line:90% and night. 00:03:05.170 --> 00:03:12.540 align:middle line:84% Milky Way echoes back to solve over coral reef. 00:03:12.540 --> 00:03:20.400 align:middle line:84% Me, coral, a miracle, chewing and digesting all floating 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.190 align:middle line:90% and flowing toward. 00:03:23.190 --> 00:03:31.980 align:middle line:84% I change them into stone, into flowery sirens for every being 00:03:31.980 --> 00:03:34.670 align:middle line:90% to sing together. 00:03:34.670 --> 00:03:36.000 align:middle line:90%