"But it would also be nice if we could see into the earth to see everything that is hidden under the surface - just like looking at the sky store we can see all the way to the distant stars! Glancing at a giant tree, my gaze runs along its grooved trunk, its many branches and leaves. However, this is only one, the visible part of the tree, the other half of its body - its roots - lives underground, stretching towards the depths. They penetrate down millimeter by millimeter year after year, pushing aside soil particles, hugging rocks around them, sometimes entwining themselves in order to take up water and mineral salts from the soil and transmit them to the above-ground part of the body, where they are firmly fixed.
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Jane GoodallAll Translations
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But it would also be nice if we could see into the earth to see everything that is hidden under the surface - just like looking at the sky store we can see all the way to the distant stars! Glancing at a giant tree, my gaze runs along its grooved trunk, its many branches and leaves. However, this is only one, the visible part of the tree, the other half of its body - its roots - lives underground, stretching towards the depths. They penetrate down millimeter by millimeter year after year, pushing aside soil particles, hugging rocks around them, sometimes entwining themselves in order to take up water and mineral salts from the soil and transmit them to the above-ground part of the body, where they are firmly fixed.
""De jó is lenne, ha belelátnánk a földbe, hogy szemügyre vehessük mindazt, amit a felszín alatt rejtőzik - mint ahogy a mennyboltra tekintve ellátunk a távoli csillagokig! Egy faóriásra pillantva tekintetem végigfut barázdált törzsén, ágai és levelei sokaságán. Ez azonban a fának csak az egyik, a látható része, a föld alatt él a mélység felé nyújtózkodva testének másik fele - a gyökerei. Milliméterről milliméterre hatolnak lefelé évről évre, talajszemcséket tolva félre, sziklákat ölelve körül, olykor egymásba fonódva, hogy vizet és ásványi sókat vegyenek föl a talajból, és továbbítsák ezeket a test föld feletti részének, amelyet szilárdan rögzítenek is."