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My Octopus Teacher

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Most of my childhood was spent in the rock pools,

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diving in the shallow kelp forest.

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That's what I most loved to do.

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As an adult, I'd been separated from that.

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And that was fine at first.

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Until I went to the central Kalahari about 20 years ago.

My Octopus Teacher

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I was making a film called The Great Dance with my brother.

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And then I met these men

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who were probably some of the best trackers in the world.

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To watch these men...

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go into the incredible, subtle signs in nature,

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things that my eye couldn't even see,

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and then follow them, sometimes for hours,

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and find hidden animals in the landscape

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was just extraordinary to witness.

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I mean, they just were inside of the natural world.

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And I could feel I was outside.

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And I had this deep longing to be inside that world.

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I went through two years of absolute hell.

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[indistinct chattering]