The beauty of Green #decay

The beauty of Green #decay  
"The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words.  
Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; 
the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility;
the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease." 
-  Sir Albert Howard, An Agricultural Testament, 1940 
 
picture: best seen enlarged
Green waste hill for mulching, shot today while raining,
Austria