{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-06-06/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If the plant were not there he could not live, for it gives him oxygen and assimilates the carbon which he himself breathes out. The plant builds its own organism from this and gives back oxygen, thus through the plant world oxygen is continually renewed for man. Humanity could not exist by itself; eliminate the plant world and mankind would in a short time die out. So you see the cycle: you breathe in oxygen which the plant breathes out, you breathe out carbon which the plant inhales and from which it builds up its own bodily nature. Thus the plant belongs to me, it is the instrument by which my life is sustained. You may see in the coal how the plant builds its body from carbon, for coal is nothing else than the dead remains of plants.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. The Nature of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-06","location":null,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-06-06/p032","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"Theosophy of the Rosicrucian","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA099/English/RSP1966/19070606p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wenn der Mensch so atmet, wie der Naturprozeß es ihm vorgeschrieben, dann braucht er die Pflanze zum Atmen. Wenn die Pflanze nicht da wäre, könnte er nicht leben, denn die Pflanze gibt ihm den Sauerstoff und assimiliert den Kohlenstoff, den er selbst ausatmet. Die Pflanze baut den eigenen Organismus daraus auf und gibt den Sauerstoff zurück, so daß dem Menschen der Sauerstoff immer erneuert wird durch die Pflanzenwelt. Die Menschheit könnte nicht für sich selbst bestehen; streichen Sie die Pflanzenwelt weg, und die Menschheit stürbe in kurzer Zeit aus. Sie sehen so den Kreislauf: Sie atmen den Sauerstoff ein, den die Pflanze ausatmet. Sie atmen aus Kohlenstoff, den die Pflanze einatmet und aus dem sie ihre eigene Körperlichkeit aufbaut. So gehört die Pflanze zu mir; sie ist das Werkzeug, das mir das Leben erhält. 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