Part 3, the foundations

What are the foundations on which mother nature has to build? Firstly the soil which consists of its parent material (i.e.: the weathered down rock) which also contains dead matter from plants and animals that decomposes into the soil, and a multitude of living organisms both microscopic and those that can easily be seen. Everything has a role to play; the parent material is the bulk matter that provides plants a stable place to root, the millions of different life forms that live in the soils feed on dead plant and animal matter and reduce it to a form that can be used by plants. Here, I am only glossing over what is really a massive subject, but will go into it in more detail later. Suffice to say, everything is part of a cycle, the cycle of life.....keep watching this space........