I agree. When Ri talks about how he relates with "permaculture" I see exactly what you've said above. And also having involved in clean-ups of that nature, I concur with the result. I also don't see how anyone can't see that, but that might just be me.

I think I'm also going to insert some of my languishing physics essay, how everything is interconnected. One just can't focus on energetics, and like matters as purely Elven/Other.

We have physical bodies, but they aren't purely physical, they are energetic as well - which we know. We cannot allow ourselves to forget the reverse.

If we want to bring what is "out there" more in line with us, harmoniously one hopes, we need to work with it. And as we generally want to live in healthier environments ('cause they ain't) that means getting down and dirty with natural systems. As mundane as it sounds, soil is a wonderfully complex system, a living system. This means that it isn't purely "physical" either, that it does have rich energetics there as well. In order for us to better understand how we can shift the system, we have to work 'with' the system. This is one of the ways we manifest as go-betweens with the natural environment.