Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/499/en

Insects form by far the most species-rich and form-rich class in the animal kingdom. They live, to be sure, in earth, water and predominantly in air, but their most primordial elemental realm is warmth. The insect lives from the working of warmth. Within warmth its soul-nature weaves in hiddenness, and through its activity it structures warmth-processes — as for instance in the visiting of blossoms, or more manifestly still in the heat-development within the ants' nest or the beehive. As warmth permeates each of its sister-elements and sets them in relation to one another, so the world of insects too, with its wisdom-filled instinct-nature, permeates these elements and creates, on the basis of warmth, on a higher level, a living web of relational contexts.