Planet Earth (TV Mini Series)

Deserts (2006)

David Attenborough: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : A third of the land on our planet is desert. These great scars on the face of the Earth

  [rolling sand dunes] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : appear to be lifeless. But, surprisingly, none are. In all, life manages somehow to keep a precarious hold.

• David Attenborough - Narrator : Few rocks can withstand the continuous blast of the sand-carrying wind. These outcrops are standing in Egypt's White Desert. But they will not do so for much longer. They're being inexorably chiseled away, and turned into more sand.

• David Attenborough - Narrator : Of all the places visited by the Planet Earth team, the most remote was Mongolia's Gobi desert.