Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/160/en

The second complex of themes is the biodynamic preparations. With this the author gives expression to his view that these inconspicuous manure supplements are of the highest importance. If one brings this into connection with the title of the book, one can formulate it thus: the preparations are, in particular, the *art of farming* — they are *the being* of biodynamic agriculture, and it is the preparations in particular that make possible an *agriculture of the future*. How must one direct one's gaze in order that this deliberate foregrounding of the preparations becomes comprehensible? Manfred Klett's direction of gaze is the fundamental relationship between the human being and nature. In this relationship, something is enacted in and through the preparations: a reversal of poles between taking and giving. The human being today — as an individual human being — can draw from the resources of his *spirit-soul* and work creatively into the inner fabric of nature, as an artist works; and nature — which has always borne the human being, from whose womb he sprang as an earthly creature — can and will entrust itself to this further cultivation through the human being's handwork. This wide gaze upon the preparations belongs to the agricultural legacy that lies before us here. Nothing less is said than this: that the millennia-old *agri-culture* receives, through the biodynamic preparations, the impulse of renewal that alone opens the future to it.