Soil is what roots us to the earth; it is both origin and destiny. Yet, in the modern world, we have forgotten its gift.
We till it until it can no longer sustain crops, strip it of its nutrients, and leave it barren. We cover it in concrete, bury our refuse in landfills, and call it progress.
But soil is alive—a web of relationships that feeds life itself. When we sever that connection, we mirror the way we treat ourselves: cutting off what nourishes us, burying what we don’t want to face, and creating systems that deplete rather than sustain.
Rehumanization is the work of reclaiming what we’ve cast off, in nature and in ourselves. Soil turns decay into life, and we can, too. It asks us to let in the wild—the instincts and emotions we’ve buried—and to see chaos not as ruin but as the source of renewal.
To rehumanize is to remember: the earth underfoot, the web that binds us, and the quiet promise that even what seems barren can bloom.