Under Our Feet

Most of us have a more accurate picture of the deepest depths of the ocean than we do of the ground beneath our feet. A handful of earth can contain thousands of animal species, metres of fungal threads and billions of bacteria. Soil is also an archive, and digging a kind of time travel. In De Grote Peel, a protected Dutch peatland, Nikki Dekker finds a world of interconnectedness from which we have much to learn, especially for those looking for the ‘why’ of existence.