You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.