When we say , “ soil,” most people imagine a pile of dirt on the roadside. But soil is not dirt . Soil is life. The very body we carry is soil that, over centuries of evolution, learned to sit up and speak. Every grain of rice, every fruit, every vegetable—each is soil taking another form. And one day, when our role is done, we return to the same soil. The question is not whether we are connected to soil but whether we are conscious of it.
From a toxicological perspective, we are trained to look for invisible agents that can harm life. We measure doses, exposures, and risk. Yet , the greatest toxicology laboratory is not inside four ...