Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees, in the first place.

— The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book (Peter Jones)

8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:01:40.984 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

- Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper.

- Which is odd because, on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy, and so the problem remained,

- And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

(HORNS HONKING)

- Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees, in the first place.

- And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should have ever left the oceans.

- And then, one day, nearly 2000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree, for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change...

- A girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth, suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place.

- This time, it was right. It would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

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