July 28, 2026
Co-operation is not you and I getting together to destroy a third person. It is you and I getting together and working for a mutual benefit. The words "you" and "I" here stand for human beings and animals, or animals and plants, plants and earth in all the various combinations. There is a reciprocal relationship between animals and plants, plants and earth — what one gives the other takes. For example plants draw their nourishment from the earth; later they themselves replenish the earth.
From an unknown devil, man has learned the art of exploiting the earth's resources. He whips the soil to yield tenfold or hundredfold. Poor earth. Robbed of her life-force she struggles on. Before modern civilizations invented the highly involved drainage system, man's excretions were returned direct to the earth. But now human excretion is pumped into the sea, polluting it! The life-cycle is broken but clever man thinks he knows what the earth needs, giving her lovely chemical fertilizers, unfit for his consumption.
Hundreds of farmers all over the world have returned to "organic" farming. They do not use chemical fertilizers or sprays; they treat plants as living things. They have learned the basic lesson of life, that nature demands cooperation and will foil any attempt to conquer her.