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"Seven of 3" <defenderofenourmousmanhood@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry Nighty, but soil does not come from rock.
> That is not to say that there are no rocks in soil.
>
> You are confused by the wonders of nature.
> Plants are wonderous. Most require soil. But not all.
> Some can grow in water, others in the air ( the root system), and some in
> rock.
> Plants that grow in rock have their ways to anchor and bore...the roots
tap
> and grow, and the plant dies. But it's seeds continue the cycle. The rocks
> crack and break, and the plants die. The creavaces begin to fill with the
> vegetative material that rotts and breed bacteria. Birds fly overhead and
> shit. It rains. Some animals die and rot. Eventually there is enough
> material for other varieties of plants to take seed. Further break the
rock,
> add more foliage and more vegetation, and so on. Eventually the big rock
is
> covered with nutrient rich black soil. And the Rock, be it the Canadian
> Shield, with Millions of Hectacres of forest, or the rock is Australia.
> Sand is rock. Soil is not rock. But rock is present especially as
minerals.
> Rock broken up by plants. Well in some cases glacier movement, but that is
> more coarse than the micro work of plants. Plants are cool. Shit they even
> clean our air and water, so much so that if it wasn't for them, we
couldn't
> drink or breath it. And Vegetarians eat plants!! Why, because they don't
> scream when you kill them. Nothing you can actually see breeeds as fast,
so
> how can you eat it into extinction? And most crops feed more people per
> hectacre than livestock. There is no higher morality or spirual insight
> because the creatures you choose to eat don't run free and scream when
> slaughtered. They die just the same! And for the exact same reasons. We
are
> omnivorous - face it!
>
> So in this case we know the plant came first - then the soil. What, and
you
> though the first life crawled out of the sea? Give me a break. plants make
> soil. See plants may be the dumbest living things, but they are the best
> adapted. They get their nutrient from the soil and their energy from the
> sun, and they recycle themselves. And they take the winter off. What a
> life!!
>
>
>
> "nightwriter" <nightwriter@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4DDhc.191717$2oI1.51055@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> >
> > "emtecca" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
> > news:c66v3q$5ef$1@nntp-stjh-01-01.rogers.nf.net...
> > > but trees are more productive...
> >
> > now.  but without rock, there's no land for the soil that grows the
tree.
> > in a chicken and egg scenario, the rock came first.
>
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