Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1187/en

When we take something out of nature in the process of making the preparations, we add something new to it through their application. As with a fabric of «individualising measures», through the application of the preparations we permeate the agricultural organism—spatially structured, living in the rhythms of time, and progressing from year to year. One should try to visualise how, within this organism, each crop according to its type and growing season (that is, the field crops in arable and vegetable farming, the meadows and pastures, the fruit trees) comes to enjoy the effects of the preparations—be it the field spray preparations from sowing to maturity, or be it the other preparations that, via compost or manure, attune the soil's fertility to the relationship between cosmos and earth that is appropriate for the plants. We experience directly how each measure of application, while aimed at a specific point—this field or that crop—nevertheless works from there into the whole of the farm organism. Every plant, every crop, opens itself to the cosmic-terrestrial environment and becomes, right down to its material configuration, an image of that very environment.