Take a handful of soil. Ask yourself, ‘Is it alive?’. Unless you are a poet the answer is anyone’s guess. You might remember your science teacher telling you about the various living organisms ranging from bacteria and virus to earth worms and caterpillar.

A pound of soil, believe you me, there are more than 460 billion organisms; in a cubic yard of soil the number goes up to 740 trillion; and in an acre covered with one foot soil is home to 1 million trillion living things. Unfathomable, isn't it?

As we walk every step, thousands of these conscious children of mother nature, some distant cousins of ours in a way, with invisible primordial chord connecting us together in a tiny planet called earth with a size of 1/170 millionth of our Sun, either get displaced or crushed under our feet.

It is understood that even if the nonliving part of the soil is removed from the surface of planet earth it will not significantly alter the shape of the land. Knowing this, will we ever want to treat soil as ‘Dirt’?

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I Am New,
Krish Murali Eswar.
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