Viktor Schauberger & Callum Coats - The Fertile Earth (2000)

organised formative substances present within a tree, no higher-grade interactions (oxidation) can take place, and thus the preconditions for the emergence of higher forms of life do not come about.

However, if these shade-demanding varieties of timber are planted out in direct sunlight, which varies in intensity and effect according to the time of year, the hard radiation, rich in 'capacity for work', will succeed in reaching the interior of a tree. There it affects temperature conditions to the extent to which water, as resistance and the conductor of heat, is present. The particles of corpuscular radiation are essentially the same as the oxygen, proteins and cellulose contained in the tree, namely male and female substances. The only difference lies in the valencies of these substances.

If a condition approaching a direct balance between these substances should occur, then the inner temperature rises and the interactive processes intensify.

From this arise correspondingly stronger pulsations and accompanying oxidations due to increased thermal energy and the formation of an independent circulatory system. In the case of larger organisms this leads to the appearance of scorching and inflammation synonymous with the propagation of many life-forms alien to the body. These cause a sickening and a halt in the development of the macro-organism, leading to its decline. Thus the development of micro-organisms and the opportunities for their propagation are simply a result of the condition in which the respective sickening macroorganism finds itself. It will be attacked by these parasites and eventually must fall victim to them if its inner climatic conditions are no longer strictly regulated.4 We are confronted here by a series of developments which are now damagingly afflicting our forests and whose significance has so far been almost entirely disregarded. The present condition of the world's 'ploughed' forests, the continuous reduction in the qualitative structure of our timbers and the rapid escalation in the deficit of all forest industry, must be the most striking proof of the forest's organic degeneration. An overall view of modern forestry practices will first be discussed before addressing the ways in which the inner ordering principle within the tree functions.

When the Pilgrim Fathers set foot on American soil a virgin forest covered 681 million acres in the east of the country and 141 million acres in the west. Today [1936] these have sunk to 60.7 and 77.4 million acres respectively. The forest land in America therefore has been quantitatively reduced from 822 to 138 million acres. Large areas of this former forest land have been transformed into arable land on which cereals and other agricultural produce are grown today.

Curiously, there is evidence to show that on this arable land, which has been worked and deep-ploughed by machines, the cereals contain fewer starches and the soil can no longer yield 100 per cent wholly nutritional produce. The soil-capillaries of these over-exploited soils have been destroyed by deep ploughing, but should they be restored to their original function, then even