Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1100/en

On the Nature of Composting

What nature demonstrates, the human hand can raise to true artistry. Composting is a work-art in which thinking, experiencing and doing stand in continual conversation. One can, according to Rudolf Steiner, acquire «a personal relationship to manure and specifically to the working with manure …» One can only achieve that when one knows all the circumstances of the kind and origin of the material — for instance, whether it is young green matter, whether it is bulky or even lignified, rich in protein or in silica, whether it is predominantly roots, leaves, masses of straw, and so forth. Each of these organic substances has a definite