Celebrate Earth Day by experiencing Earth’s extraordinary 4.6 billion year journey through a 4.6 kilometre guided walk where each metre represents one million years.
Explore a story of our living Earth – from its fiery beginnings through the emergence of life, complex cells, plants, dinosaurs, and humanity’s recent appearance in the last few centimetres of our journey.
No specialist knowledge required – just bring curiosity, weather-appropriate clothing, and walking shoes. All ages welcome.
Starting at the formation of the solar system and the creation of Earth, Deep Time Walk covers significant events in Earth’s deep history, including the formation of the Moon, plate tectonics, the early evolution of life, dinosaurs and much more. The walk will put into context humanity’s rich ancestral heritage and give you an insight into the interconnectedness of all life in the context of the present ‘code-red’ climate and ecological emergency.
A radical perspective, provoking action not apathy … [it] is the catalysing context of intergenerational justice; it is what frames the inspiring activism of Greta Thunberg and the school climate-strikers, and the Sunrise campaigners pushing for a Green New Deal in America. A deep-time perspective requires us to consider not only how we will imagine the future, but how the future will imagine us. It asks a version of Jonas Salk’s arresting question: “Are we being good ancestors?” Robert MacFarlane
The walk is led by Robert Woodford (Deep Time Walk C.I.C.) and Angus Miller (Edinburgh Geological Society & Geowalks). Please dress appropriately for this outdoor event including sensible footwear and waterproof clothing. Meet outside the entrance to Dynamic Earth. We will finish at the same location.
