The world is a very different place from way up above. All told, just 553 people have seen it from orbit, and many returned to say the sight transformed their worldview.

The new book Overview: A New Perspective of Earth, by American author Benjamin Grant, aims to share the astronauts’ experience of the “overview effect.”

In extraordinary high-resolution, the book’s more than 200 satellite images reveal how everything on Earth is tied up in a fragile web of human and natural patterns.

From colorful grids of Dutch tulips, to a moonscape of coal in China, to treelike patterns in suburbs and subdivisions, the pictures show the intricate complexity people have shaped.

“If we embrace and learn from this new perspective, I am optimistic that we will create a smarter and safer future for our one and only home,” Grant writes.