Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/171/en

The agriculture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries becomes increasingly an ecological question and, going beyond this, a question of the formation of the Earth, in the sense of Novalis's "To the formation of the Earth we are called." At the same time, however — and still little recognised in its immense import — it presents itself today, reaching across the whole of civilised life, as a social question. It is this that calls out loudly for a change of mind in human consciousness toward the things and beings of nature. The human being has risen from creation into an independent, free creativeness. Does he want to "own this" and act accordingly? Does he want, instead of serving only himself, to throw himself selflessly and courageously into the breach for others and for other things? Agriculture, as it has become under the dominance of rational technology and promises increasingly to become under the trend toward digital control, is bereft of culture-renewing impulses. But those who have the courage to farm biodynamically, following their own insights, will notice that before long, from germinal beginnings, a new culture blossoms forth in island-like fashion and radiates outward. They will then be filled with the certainty that the path they have taken, however many obstacles