Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?
Earthworms are far more valuable than people.
