 My name is Andy Murray. I'm an entomologist, writer and macro-photographer specialising in documenting the lives and incredible beauty of soil misophonia. These almost invisible soil-dwelling animals are often overlooked and yet they are one of our most ancient and important terrestrial and invertebrate groups, responsible together with fungi and bacteria for creating the first soils. Their role in carbon cycling and age and nutrient exchange between plants and soil quite the continues even now, 400 million years after first colonising the land in an unchanged, unappreciated yet essential service to the larger world above. Getting to know and photograph these amazing and complex animals over so many years has been another privilege, one of the most truly humbling, inspiring and profound experiences of my life. Springtails are the most colourful of all soil misophonia. They are entirely incredible and wonderfully endearing animals. I first fell in love with them nine years ago. They were the reason why I left my job in life in the UK back in 2014 and travelled for six months around the temperate and tropical rainforests of Australia and New Zealand with my camera to photograph them. While there, I became equally obsessed with photographing the other incredible soil animals too. It turns out that mites, poripods, symphylans and forturans are almost as wonderful as springtails. Eventually, those six months became a three-year journey around the world to document and photograph animals not much larger than a grain of sand. I've loved every moment. Nearly a million photos and nine years later, I've also had to watch things change for the worse. Soil biodiversity is now decreasing at an alarming rate worldwide with countless species under threat or already lost due to human activities. But thanks to the efforts of the international community, like the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Soil Partnership and many others, we now have finally a platform to promote the importance of soil fauna and soil health worldwide. We urgently need our government's soil conservation policies to include the protection and sustainable management of soil biodiversity. Their importance can't be overstated. This loss of soil biodiversity can still be reversed and site-specific and sustainable soil management practices can allow these wonderful soil species to live and thrive and sustain us into the future. As a final word, I'll say this. Notice, enjoy and appreciate the small things in your life. They're often more important than you realise.