Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1146/en

In the rocks, the element of the «solid-earthly» manifests itself. They became «work» in the form of crystals out of a primeval, metabolic-like life process in the Earth's development. Only through the processes of weathering, the decay of crystalline forms, can the substances be lifted up again into the processes of living nature. As such, they have no fertiliser value. Plants reproduce not only through the seed, but at the same time through the residues of the «universal-plant-element», which trigger metabolic processes in the soil. Past life is transformed into the «universal seed» humus, which fertilises future life. Finally, animals fertilise from the forces of their vitality and ensoulment. This is revealed outwardly in the almost infinite variety of their activities of being, and inwardly in the activity of digesting and preparing an enlivened and ensouled fertiliser.