Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/87/en

It is reserved for the labour and spiritual achievement of the human being to shape what nature has disposed into a higher wholeness, into the as-far-as-possible self-enclosed organism — the agricultural operation. With a view to the cosmic-earthly conditions of production in agriculture, there follows necessarily from these the formative principle of the diversely articulated organism. This, taken as a whole, constitutes the means of production of agriculture and thereby stands in polar opposition to the means of production of industry, which is the mechanism. The mechanism rests on one-sidedness; the organism on all-sidedness.