Farmers rotate their crops so as to avoid or reduce the extent to which certain nutrients are extracted from the soil. Sometime they even till some of the produce back into the soil to enrich it.

Often, through fire, nature orchestrates its own long term advancement and growth through short term destruction. In so doing, it clears paths for what is new, returning what is old to the earth.

Soil produces living things, but must be sustained by death. It is not only sustained by life, just as life is sustained by it; but soil is in fact the remnants of life. If nothing is dying nothing is growing. That’s life.