 I mean, I almost don't even have an answer for that question. What is soil? Soil is such an interesting combination of rocks and air and water and life and plant roots and animals. Soil is not something that we should waste or disregard or take for granted. Soil is not dead. Soil is by definition alive. Soil is so thin. It's such a thin little layer on the surface of the earth and it contains so many things that we depend on and that we need. We are just beginning to understand the life processes, the chemical processes, the geologic processes. The science of soil is being revolutionized by our new understandings of life at the smallest level. When you begin to learn about the complexity and what it's actually made of, it is really a universe of living organisms and dead material, things that were dead and are now coming back to life in a different form. There are more organisms and a handful of soil than there are people on earth than there are stars in the sky. And that's why this matters.