Plants need nutrients in the soil to grow. But where do these nutrients come from? They are what is left of Mother Nature's recycling program. When plants and animals in the forest die and fall to the ground, fungi and bacteria begin to decompose them. This process can take along time, but what is left once the recycling clue has finished is new soil, full of the nutrients that once composed the no longer living plant or animal, and ready to nourish a new generation.

Below is the last stanza of a poem, "dover beach," written in 1876 by matthew arnold. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night. which of these statements best describes the remedy arnold proposes for the world? a. look to your dreams for answers to life's questions. b. our faith in each other can shelter us from deceptive chaos. c. in this deceptive world, ignorance requires faith. d. the world may end, but love conquers all.