Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1194/en

The threefoldness is laid out in the germ of the seed — tenderly and belonging-together. Proceeding from the middle, the germinal bud, the root differentiates and separates downward, the shoot upward. One will find everywhere in the creative Work of nature a middle between two poles — yet one that is determined in its mercurial functions. In the threefoldness of root, blossom, and the middle-forming leaf, the plant is an accomplished Work. The same holds for what in the human being is nature — his body and his organs. The skin organ, for instance, articulates itself into the innervated, sense-active epidermis (Epidermis), the blood-permeated dermis (Corium), and the metabolically active subcutaneous layer (Subcutis). The same principle holds for the agricultural organism: the sense-function of the rocks in the depths, the digestive activity of wind and weather in the heights, and, as the middle member, the soil.