Not only does fruit reproduce life in due course by its death, but in its ripeness it maintains life by giving sustenance to the hungry and refreshment to the thirsty, whilst still retaining its fundamental function in its seed of life, the stone or pip. Fruit and chaff both fall to the ground and rot, the former to bring forth new life in abundance, the latter to dissolve, resolving itself into its elements and thus forming humus. The former speaks. to us of resurrection and the latter of disintegration. In the sense that its elements form the food of the growing plant, it may be said that it becomes reintegrated eventually.
J.G.H. Steedman
