Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/839/en

Where winter was dominated by a purely physical happening — the separation of the elements, a dying-away of outer organic life, accompanied by processes of densification and crystallisation — spring brings one of greatest outer life-unfolding, above and below the soil. Yet this future-directed becoming consumes soil fertility. That consumption proceeds from the breakdown of the bearer of past life: humus. As the endosperm belongs to the seed and dies into the formation of the germinating plant as it sprouts, so the nourishing tissue of the humus is the germinal ground from which, under the in-raying forces of the cosmos, the present life of the plant — all the way to fruit formation — can take shape in an earthly way.