Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/194/en

Agriculture is embedded, polar to industry, in the whole household of nature, the *Oikos*. Value-creation is the achievement of nature. Out of the reciprocal relational nexus of non-living (physical), living, and ensouled nature, and under the influences of the cosmos in all rhythmic happening, there arises as nature's generative achievement the grain of wheat, the carrot, the milk — and all of this in strict site-boundness. Nature is the producer; the human being steps in alongside and, through his labor, guides her bringing-forth force. The means of production are not the machines — the tractor, the combine harvester, and so forth; these only replace and enhance the performances of the human hand and of animal traction — but rather the fertile soil, the fruit-forming, nourishment-giving plants, and the domestic animals with their each different contribution to the yield. In a transferred sense, these constitute the productive capital of agriculture.