Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/466/en

The Wild Animal Species — Organs of the Farm-and-Landscape Organism

The culture-creating achievement of agriculture was the transformation of wild nature into cultivated nature; it remains agriculture's ongoing task to provide for the care and further development of that cultivated nature. This step of transformation meant, among other things, either banishing the large wild animal world entirely from the landscapes — as with the predators: wolf, bear, lynx, as well as the ungulates such as aurochs, elk, bison, wild boar, and so on — and replacing them with domestic animals, or taking them under stewardship and care, as with noble game: red deer, roe deer, and reindeer, or small game: hare, fox, and the like. Wild-living mammals are shy of human beings and predominantly nocturnal. Their excellent sense faculties — smell, hearing, and sight — point to the alertness of a more conscious inner life. With their senses they plunge into the outer world, scenting, listening, watching — as, for example, noble game does when it steps out of the forest darkness into the open fieldscape to graze. The soul's instinctive life is stirred by these perceptions, and at the same time