To my mind, there's no inconsistency
between a fascination with mechanism and technology
and a fascination with animal life.
A lot of people set those up as polar opposites.
I'm equally fascinated by both, and I'm not entirely sure
that our taxonomies that separate things out
like animal, vegetable, mineral are entirely to be believed.
I have a lot of skepticism about almost
everything from the appetizer to the dessert.
And you'll see-- though I'm excruciating
about animal life and animal suffering,
I also am fascinated by mechanism
and its responsiveness.
It is, after all, one of our--
if not an appendage the thing to which
an appendage is dedicated.
So when I say webcam the world, I'm
as interested in the world as the webcam, of course.
"Webcam the World."
"Get all of it.
Set up the shots at every angle.
Run them online 24/7.
Get beautiful stuff like scenery, and greenery,
and style, and get the ugliness like cruelty,
and quackery, and rue.
There's nothing unastonishing, but get that too.
We have to save it all now that we can, and while.
Do close-ups with electron microscopes and vaster
pans with planet cams.
It may be getting close to our last chance.
How many millipedes or elephants are left?
How many minutes for mind-blinded men?
Use every lens you can.
Get Dubliners in fisticuffs, the last Beijinger
with an abacus, the boy in Addis Ababa who
feeds the starving dog.
And don't forget the cows in neck irons when
barns begin to burn, the rollickers at clubs,
the frolickers at forage.
Take all the space you need.
It's curved.
Let mileage be footage.
Let years be light.
Get goggles for the hermitage and shades for whorage.
Don't be boggled by totality, we're
here to save the world without exception.
It will serve as its own storage."