“The Earthly Element”: Life Motions IV. – With the fourth reflection upon the elements, the symbolic circle comes to a close; following up the considerations on Air, this text is to establish a link to the first treatise on Water and – by mediation – also to the published text on Fire. The aim of the following text is to make an attempt to expose in a considerate way, from various angles, what in terms of the elementedness of Earth usually remains without reflection. This may be due to the fact that the topic has to do with our everyday lives and, as usual, although accepted and born forth in some way, the question is still less often posed as to the way the Earth expresses itself (and we perceive it). The paper is not intended to be a description, a record of phenomena, but rather a participation on the perception of life motions in the earthly phenomenon. Various points of view of the “earthly element” find their expression here in the names of the individual text segments: Earth, Landscape, Region, and Land.