Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life is a tale that has energy = life, and thus the sun is the source of life through photosynthesis. The process of photosynthesis is shown in lovely illustrations.
This type of book, along with the trilogy starting with Born with a Bang are scientifically accurate, but give the connections and processes a spiritual spin - such as "we are all made of stardust", or "you are made of living sunlight". They are like a poem I copied out of the book What Does God Look Like In An Expanding Universe:
Where Do We Come From?
Deliver us a line
about supernovas and galaxies,
empty space and time.
Do we come from the garden,
Do we come from the One,
Do we come from the fireball,
or the generosity of the sun?
Weave a tale for us,
spin a metaphor or two,
About the grandeur of our origins,
When the seamless web was new.
--Catherine Browning
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