2000年，世界**野生动物摄影师Frans Lanting 开始了一段个人之旅——拍摄地球上生命的演变。他多次去往真正的时空胶囊——就像西澳的一个偏僻的环礁湖——朝圣，花时间拍摄那些极小的生命，他甚至还发现了在身体内器官的生长和地球表面看到的模式之间打造视觉相似之处的方法。

于是就有了这本精美的介绍地球的图书，本书描述了我们周围令人惊叹的生物多样性。Lanting的真正天赋不止于他技术上的精通：还在于他能在美丽的大自然的喧嚣中看到几何学，因此他才能为我们展示世界从未有过的样子。从螃蟹到水母、硅藻到地质建造、热带丛林到鲜花、猴子到人类胚胎，《生命》证明了各种各样的生命神奇的美丽，是Lanting最了不起的成就之一。

In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on Earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules, like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth of organs in the human body and the patterns seen on the surface of the earth.The resulting volume is a glorious picture book of Planet Earth, depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all. Lanting's true gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye for geometry in the beautiful chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as it has never been seen before. From crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast geological formations, jungles to flowers, monkeys to human embryos, LIFE is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all its forms and is one of Lanting's most remarkable achievements.