Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/866/en

The plant grows, with root, stem, leaf and blossom, through to fruit and seed-maturity, above all out of "direct co-living" with the classical elements "earth and water." These mediate to it a kind of inward working that manifests in the "earth-sap" (xylem) streaming upward along the Earth-Sun axis. Borne within it — taken up by the etheric organisation of the plant — the dissolved substances of the earth and the "formative forces" of the sphere of the fixed stars stream upward and unite with the warmth- and light-forces of sun and planets, giving rise to the substance compositions (proteins, carbohydrates, fats, oils, aromas, vitamins, etc.) that are proper to each plant species. It is a living activity directed toward a whole, governed by numerous enzymes. These force-configurations lead, on the path toward full ripeness, to the formation of ever new substance compositions structuring themselves with increasing complexity from stage to stage. The unripeness of a fruit is characterised by the fact that enzymatic activity has not yet