Earth is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind place.
This is something we may forget, except when we're reminded on April 22, Earth Day.
To celebrate the natural world, we've rounded up some of the most beautiful and mesmerizing pictures of our home planet from Reuters.
Hopefully these images make you appreciate Earth and how important it is to continue to protect and preserve our environment.
Swans swim past changing autumn leaves in Sheffield Park Gardens in southern England.
Migrating common cranes fly to their night roost at sunset north of Berlin.
The colors of fall can be seen reflected in a waterfall along the Blackberry River in Connecticut.
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This 5,500-year-old Antarctic Moss was incredibly hard to find. Researchers had last seen it 25 years prior, but due to the imprecision of navigating the area before GPS, it was ultimately lost. Sussman worked with the Polar Geospatial Center to get satellite maps of the area that helped identify potential locations of the moss. Traveling aboard the National Geographic Expedition, Sussman worked with explorer Peter Hilary to find and identify the illusive moss.
Sussman heard about this 2,000+ year-old llareta in the Atacama Desert, Chile from an internet commenter who had spotted her work on Flickr. The llareta is a dense flowering shrub related to parsley, which lives in extremely high elevations. There are many llaretas over 2,000 years old. They live so long because they grow slowly — only 1.5 centimeters per year — and are adapted to nutritionally-poor environments. 
This 100,000-year-old sea grass meadow is located in a UNESCO-protected waterway between the islands of Ibiza and Formentera, near Spain. The Posidonia oceanica meadow is a clonal colony, meaning that plants reproduce asexually from a single ancestor and contain the same genetic material. To view the meadow, Sussman traveled with scientists doing field work in the area.
To find this 13,000-year-old Eucalyptus tree, Sussman had to find her own way after meeting an Australian researcher in Perth who handed her a branch cutting of a cloned version of the tree. The researcher gave her general directions and told her to find the right specimen by matching leaves on the cutting to those of the tree. Sussman declined to reveal the species name because it might hint too heavily at its location. There are fewer than five left of its kind on Earth.
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Shittake mushrooms grow on compressed sawdust blocks in Germany, which are designed to mimic dead logs.
At facilities like this tomato greenhouse in Middenmeer, Netherlands, scientists have tamed mother nature to grow fresh produce at any time of the year. 
Inside the greenhouse, farmers grow rows upon rows of perfectly shaped tomatoes. 
Up close, you can see multiple tomato trusses (the fruit-bearing part of the plant) growing from a single plant.
The dry, dusty climate in Andalusia, Spain used to make it a poor place to farm. Then farmers began covering the landscape with greenhouses, building a $2.8 billion agriculture industry.
Fields in Paso Robles, Calif. may look like the surface of a desolate planet, but they're actually just fallow. Fields are left ploughed but unseeded to let them regain fertility for a later season.
Irrigation channels in California transformed an area that used to be covered with dry steppe into one of the most important fruit and vegetable farming regions in North America.
Grape vines grow in semi-arid King City, Calif.
Prior to planting, soil must be chemically treated to rid it of weeds in the seedbed that would compete with the crop for water and nutrients.
The soil is covered with plastic mulch to suppress weeds and conserve water. Plants grow through small slits in the sheeting. Plastic mulch has been praised for preventing rotting fruit, but disposal of the sheeting has become an environmental problem.
Here, the soil has been tilled and irrigated in California. Seedlings are beginning to grow.
At a vineyard in California, grapes are near the beginning of their growth cycle.
Cacti grow in perfect uniformity in Borrego Springs, Calif.
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