Compost

An excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, reprinted in 1977, 31 years after the original!
"COMPOST: In the soft, warm bosom of a decaying compost heap, a transformation of life to death and back again is taking place. Life is leaving the living plants of yesterday, but in their death these leaves and stalks pass on their vitality to the coming generations of future seasons. Here in a dank and mouldy pile the wheel of life is turning.
Compost is more than a fertilizer or a healing agent for the soil's wounds. It is a symbol of continuing life. Nature herself made compost before man first walked the earth and before the first dinosaur reared its head about a primeval swamp. Leaves falling to the forest floor and slowly mouldering are composting. The dead grass of the meadow seared by winter's frost is being composted by the dampness of the earth beneath. The birds, the insects and the animals contributed their bodies to the vast and continuing soil rebuilding program of nature."

Take that to your next dics for breakfast!