This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity importance and intrinsic beauty of
soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to
the landscapes in which they form. The book unravels the complex bond between humans and soils
and the importance of soils in our cultures and everyday lives.Soil is critical to terrestrial
life on earth. It underpins human food supply and provides materials on which we build our
lives. Soil is out of sight and often out of mind thus easy to overlook. Yet soil has
tremendous variety and intrinsic beauty for those who care to look. Soil contains a memory of
the events that have shaped the landscape and the environment. With help you can look at a soil
and understand the stories that it has to tell. Written in a reader-friendly way Celebrating
Soil is a wonderful resource for farmers horticulturalists naturalists students and others
who are concerned about how soils are formed work and are used.
