0:00 Just a single green leaf, hanging out on a vine0:04 Soaking up the morning, waiting for a sign0:09 My roots are pulling water from the ground below0:14 I'm breathing in the carbon that the animals blow0:19 Got my tiny solar panels, they're called chloroplasts, you see0:24 Ready to cook a meal with a sunbeam recipe0:29 Give me sunlight, give me water, and some CO₂0:34 I'll make sugary power, and fresh oxygen for you0:39 It's photosynthesis, the planet's factory beat0:44 I'm turnin' light into life, oh, ain't that sweet?0:49 From a single-celled algae to the tallest redwood tree0:54 We're the green machines of energy!0:59 Inside my cells, the chlorophyll is the star of the show1:04 It's what makes me green, it captures light and makes me glow1:09 It splits a water molecule, a process clean and fast1:14 Releases oxygen so this whole wide world can last1:19 Then it takes that captured power, in a second clever stage1:24 And builds a sugar molecule to turn a brand new page1:29 Give me sunlight, give me water, and some CO₂1:33 I'll make sugary power, and fresh oxygen for you1:38 It's photosynthesis, the planet's factory beat1:43 I'm turnin' light into life, oh, ain't that sweet?1:48 From a single-celled algae to the tallest redwood tree1:53 We're the green machines of energy!1:58 So every apple that you crunch, every piece of bread you chew2:03 Started with a sunbeam, some water, and CO₂2:08 Every breath you take, that air so fresh and deep2:13 Was a gift from a green leaf, while the world was fast asleep2:18 We're the bottom of the food chain, the engine and the heart2:23 Playing our essential, scientific part2:28 Give me sunlight, give me water, and some CO₂2:33 I'll make sugary power, and fresh oxygen for you2:38 It's photosynthesis, the planet's factory beat2:43 I'm turnin' light into life, oh, ain't that sweet?2:48 From a single-celled algae to the tallest redwood tree2:53 We're the green machines of energy!
