All Life Depends on Soil [1]

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Dr. Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch [3]
Waking Times [4]

2015 is the year of soil [5]. Bringing the soil to the center of our consciousness and our planning is vital for the life of the soil [6], but also for the future of our society. History provides ample evidence that civilizations which ignored the health and well-being of the soil, and exploited it without renewing its fertility, disappeared along with the soil.

Indian civilization has sustained itself over thousands of years because it revered the soil as sacred and inviolable. It treated it as Mother Earth.