There are many ways to enjoy all that the natural earth has to offer with your family. I like to walk through the nature trails at a local park with Michael. It’s fun to dodge limbs and walk over pine needles. Don’t knock it till you try it.
What you may not be able to enjoy without some help is seeing what a hot spring with an orange algae fringe in New Zealand looks like from above the earth. Can you imagine the brightness of a hill covered with moss in Iceland?
Bernard Edmaier’s Patterns of Earth is a collection of more than 200 pages of surprising images of our earth from above. I never imagined that many of the creations in this book exist. One example: Degassing vents in a sinter crust in a geothermal region of Ethiopia. The vents look like a big sheet of large popped corn baked for years.
The next time you’re searching for an inspiring book that you don’t really have to read, check out Patterns of Earth. Even though this book is made of paper, it just might help you love the earth a little more.