Hannah

“Trillions of microorganisms, even in my own smallish backyard, like a great dark sea swarming with tiny creatures—it almost makes me feel a little seasick standing here, knowing how much business is being conducted right under my feet.”
― Kristin Ohlson, The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

“One of the worst things that you can do is to pretend that what you’re actually sowing are seeds, that you’re actually sowing them in soil, and that you’ve actually left your living room to do either.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A prosaic practicism of everyday life does not, however, deprive a man of the power of imagination. He has developed beautiful arts and created fascinating fairy-tales. One of these is about a wonderful magic carpet. He does not realize the wonders of the real magic carpet, soil, which spreads over the land on which he lives and which he tramples every day so carelessly, far surpasses all the wonders of his imaginary magic. He hardly realizes that without this magic carpet of soil, life would not exist on the Earth. Soil and life are twins; neither can exist without the other. Dynamics of life and dynamics of soil are merely phases of a common process of continuous transformations of matter and energy.”
― C.C. Nikiforoff

“I am plant as well as animal. My blood transports oxygen; my chlorophyll produces it. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus surge along tissue, torso, culm to my blades. Blood blends magnesium as well as iron. I am grass made flesh. Grassling.”
― Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling