" A prosaic practicism of everyday life does not, however, deprive a man of the power of imagination. He has developed beautiful arts and created fascinating fairy-tales. One of these is about a wonderful magic carpet. He does not realize the wonders of the real magic carpet, soil, which spreads over the land on which he lives and which he tramples every day so carelessly, far surpasses all the wonders of his imaginary magic. He hardly realizes that without this magic carpet of soil, life would not exist on the Earth. Soil and life are twins; neither can exist without the other. Dynamics of life and dynamics of soil are merely phases of a common process of continuous transformations of matter and energy. "

― C.C. Nikiforoff