Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1401/en

The whole growth habit of the stinging nettle, its inclination to grow modestly wherever human hands have brought something into disorder — at places where putrefaction holds sway, where rubble heaps lie, on neglected pastures and where old machines rust away in the undergrowth, or on soils with iron-bearing groundwater close to the surface, and further where transition zones have been created in the landscape: along roadsides, at the banks of waterways, along hedgerow and woodland edges. All this, together with the intense green of the leaves — this is a nitrogen effect, but above all an iron effect, without which the magnesium-bearing chlorophyll could not form — and likewise the strict order of the plant's martial, upright form, all of it points to the fact that the stinging nettle has mastered the iron process, an expression of a heightened I-force. Where it grows, it creates order — by virtue of its "magnificent inward working" — in the middle between the "heights and the depths." It creates a harmonious equilibration of one-sidedly displaced soil processes, forming an extraordinarily stable, crumbling mull humus.