Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/482/en

It belongs to the art of farming to create, for this so ceaselessly active and beneficent group of animals, a living space of abundance. For wherever the earthworm unfolds its activity — in field, meadow and pasture, in the dung heap and compost pile — its spiritual correlate is present too: the elemental beings of the earthy-solid. Without the earthworm the soil would gradually compact and harden, falling, one might say, into a kind of death-rigidity. The earthworm enlivens the soil.