In search of a bit of soil
Call of the land SOIL is the thin layer of earth's crust which serves as a natural medium for growth of plants. This is a formal definition of soil. So soil is the birthplace for plants. And plants are essential for the life of all other life on earth including humans. Reasons are known even by children – plants transform CO 2 to oxygen that we breath; they absorb greenhouse gases and keep earth cool. Plants are at the lowest rung of the food chain—all herbivores like cows, goats, deer and sheep live off plants and all carnivores like tigers, lions live by eating the herbivores. We humans usually eat plants and herbivores. Thus we may say—soil of mother earth is the cradle of life. I am a thinking person, a person away from soil, away from doing things by hand, a person whose main job is thinking. And inevitably I live in a large city where roads are paved and concrete buildings aspire to touch the sky. I miss the soil, the open soil. In my childhood, w...