From the introduction:
"Rocks, stones, desert sands, beach dunes, pans, trees, fields, waterfalls, stormy seas, sunsets. Paging through this collection of compelling black-and-white photographs, the reader is struck both by the force and power of nature, and by its insistent calm majesty. One is confronted with the eternal, implacable cycle of birth and death, and is forced once again to reposition oneself—to rethink one's own relationship with the world.

Although technical proficiency is important to the photographers, they prefer to understand photography as an aesthetic form, as an art. This is evident in their work’s insistent movement between realism and the abstract.

This book is a work of art—both to be enjoyed in and for itself, and to remind us of the beauty that still abounds in our natural world. It is ultimately a celebration, an affirmation of life itself."