Until recently, we lived territorially and intellectually confined. The vast majority of people were born, lived and died in a few square kilometers. Suddenly, new communication and information technologies allowed us to ‘know the world,’ to compare. They have allowed us to know the surrounding and distant reality. Appreciate what we have and the precariousness of others. The Earth Stories Collection is an excellent work that, through small stories, brings us closer to realities so distant but, at the same time, so close …