Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1147/en

The fruit tree lignifies and at the same time bears tender, palatable fruits. It masters the polarity of light and dark, life and death, and the working of ether and astral forces. This finds its fullest expression in the standard tree. In it, the etheric vitality strives upward from the root system reaching broadly and deeply, through trunk and branches into the leafy shoots of the tree crown. This strong enlivening in air and warmth draws a rich insect life: "That which passes through the trees as something rich in astrality — in this the fully formed insect lives and moves." Polar to this, throughout everything that lignifies and above all in the root zone, "etheric poverty" prevails. In this milieu, more strongly exposed to the forces of mineralization, the larvae of the insects unfold. The standard tree, grafted onto a slowly growing rootstock, embodies as it were this polarity; it is undemanding and requires no manuring — least of all manuring that stimulates excessive shoot growth.