Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/402/en

The plants, and with them the agricultural individuality, stand in relation to the threefoldness of the human being on their head. How deeply a kinship-relation to man and animal exists here becomes apparent in the following: The root feels its way, like a sense organ of the plant, into the substances of the earth's depths. When the fructifying process of the plant shifts all the way down into the root — as in the carrot, for example — the root thickens and colours itself into a luminous reddish-yellow, and a delicate sweetness and aromatic quality permeates its fine tissue. A foodstuff is formed that nourishes the head, the nerve-sense organisation as a whole, in an excellent way (Figure 5, p. 90). When, conversely, the plant fruits in connection with seed formation high above the earth — as is the case with the cereals, for example — then as a foodstuff there arises