Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/884/en

or overwintering in the pupal stage, or indeed as imago in the case of colony-forming insects, such as the bee colony. In the soil, single-celled bacterial life passes over into resting forms, fungal life produces spores. Tree, shrub, herb and grass form seeds, the soil insects lay their eggs, the earthworms withdraw into hollows of deeper soil layers. The abundance of early-autumn appearances grows visibly poorer, and at last what shapes the landscape is the rigid, as-if-dead branching of trees and shrubs. The one thing that in this dying still gives the feeling eye some hope of a continued working of life is the tart evergreen of the conifers, the still-lush green of the meadows and pastures, and the tender green of the autumn sowings.