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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Early Roots of the Organic Movement
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:52:55 -0700


Interesting.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/28/2008 at 2:27 PM Dieter Brand wrote:

>Thanks Paul, that is pretty exhaustive as far as thinking
> on soil and plant nutrition is concerned.
>
> There is one item, though, that particularly appeals to me
> that isn't included here.
>
> According to a text I read recently, Aristotle considered that
> _soil is the stomach of plants_ in the sense that soil performs
> many function like the mechanical and chemical breakdown of
> organic materials which needs to occur before plants can access
> these materials as food. These functions are performed in the
> body by the teeth, the digestive track and other body organs.
> In fact, it is possible to see the root system of plants as a
> digestive track turned inside out. Both are colonized by
> bacteria needed for processing food.
>
> This, to me sounds like an explanation of plant nutrition as
> intelligent as any provided by modern science.
>
> I don't know were Aristotle is supposed to have said this and
> the text from which I cite is in German.
>
> Dieter
>
>
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