Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/627/en

This happening, which fulfils itself in the rhythm of the year and of years, is — like the blood — only outwardly a circulation. Just as the blood refreshes itself in the lungs, impregnates itself in the periphery of the body with impressions that are perceived in the heart, and is sifted at the kidney for usable and unusable substances — so too, in the agricultural organism, the path of fodder growth proceeds in metamorphoses: it renews itself every year under the influences of the cosmos and the earth, grows up far out in the periphery of the farm precincts, is taken up and analysed by the cattle herd, sifted at the intestinal wall and transformed into manure, which preserves the yield of what has become and leads it into a new becoming. It is not a repetition of the same, but a process of advancing development.