Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1468/en

The physical and life organisation of the dandelion is evolutively directed toward shaping a relational nexus between potassium and silica, reaching its culmination in the blossom. To this attaches the question whether, in the connecting link mentioned — as a kind of synthesis of this new inner-outer relation — this relational nexus might not be kept in flow beyond the boundary that evolution has set for the development of the plant. Does not precisely the significance of the mesentery lie in this: that on the one hand, in its functional unity with the digestion of the small intestine, and on the other hand, by virtue of the function of its double lamella in the first preparation step, it brings two polar worlds of force into relation with one another? Is it not precisely thereby that the conditions are first created, within the earthly realm, for the unique capacity of the dandelion to «draw silica in from the cosmos» —

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