Earth as a Library

The Earth has often been viewed in many ways, as a lifeboat we are all in, a garden of Eden or as a blue marble on a black field of space. What has been overlooked is that Earth is also an immense set of libraries housed in all its different forms in habitats and environments containing the blueprints for life and designs for the future.  Not just the blueprints for life of organisms, plants, animals and whole ecosystems but the blueprints for undiscovered chemical formulas and reactions, designs, patterns, concepts and ideas not yet realized by us.