Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/628/en

Thus through the activity of the cattle — viewed from the side of nature — the law of "giving and taking" that holds sway in all nature fulfils itself at the highest level; and at the same time the cattle herd as a whole, as no other domestic animal does, ensures the greatest possible closedness of the farm organism. It is the unique achievement of the cow that, in the first instance in accordance with nature, centre and periphery of the farm close together into a higher whole. "Manure works more wonders than the saints."