Oliver_Bill_TurtleIsland.mp3

Bill Oliver [00:00:01] Indians believed a long time ago that the world was floating through space,

Bill Oliver [00:00:07] On the back of a turtle that kept it from sinking and kept it in a safer place.

Bill Oliver [00:00:15] Turtles were special and thought to be wise from the ages that live in their eyes,.

Bill Oliver [00:00:21] From the back of their shell, they would keep us so well, in fact, they would keep us alive.

Bill Oliver [00:00:29] We are the children of Turtle Island, a story that's old and that's new.

Bill Oliver [00:00:36] On Turtle Island, there's a turtle smiling, and carrying the world for you, carrying the world for you.

Bill Oliver [00:00:47] Turtles can migrate from ocean to ocean, travel thousands of miles in the sea.

Bill Oliver [00:00:54] Crawl from their shells and seven years later, come back to the very same beach.

Bill Oliver [00:01:01] Nobody knows how they remember their way, it's a scientific mystery.

Bill Oliver [00:01:07] Charles Darwin and others became turtle lovers because turtles, they felt, held the key.

Bill Oliver [00:01:15] We are the children of Turtle Island, a story that's old and that's new.

Bill Oliver [00:01:22] On Turtle Island, there's a turtle smiling and carrying the world for you, carrying the world for you.

Bill Oliver [00:01:31] Tortuga muy grande!

Bill Oliver [00:01:51] Turtles have outlived the dinosaur kings with millenniums stored in their genes.

Bill Oliver [00:01:57] But like so many creatures on the brink of extinction, we're losing the turtles of the sea.

Bill Oliver [00:02:04] And now the tables are turning.

Bill Oliver [00:02:07] The story's returning,

Bill Oliver [00:02:08] As mythology mixes with fact,

Bill Oliver [00:02:12] As the fate of the turtle and the fate of the Island are now resting on our backs.

Bill Oliver [00:02:20] We are the children of Turtle Island, a story that's old and that's new.

Bill Oliver [00:02:26] On Turtle Island, there's a turtle smiling, but their world is depending on you.

Bill Oliver [00:02:34] Like so many creatures on Turtle Island, the world is depending on you.