Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1340/en

This can be achieved when the aerial shoot of the stinging nettle — deep green in stem and leaf, having come to blossom — is exposed to a polarity that lifts it beyond the bounds of its own nature-bound process of type-conforming form-building. Through this a further heightening comes about, a synthesis of a new substance within the living: the stinging nettle preparation. One mows stinging nettles, folds them together or better chops them roughly and "wilts them lightly" (Figure 28).