There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.
