Quote:The world's longest worm, the Ribbon Worm (Phylum Nemertea) Lineus longissimus, that can reach a length of more than 50 metres.
The Earthworm:
Who really respects the earthworm,
the farm worker far under the grass in the soil.
He keeps the earth always changing.
He works entirely full of soil,
speechless with soil, and blind.
He is underneath the farmer, the underground one,
where the fields are getting on their harvest clothes.
Who eally respects him,
the deep and calm earth-worker,
this deatlhess, gray, tiny farmer in the planet's soil.
-- Harry Martinson (translated by Robert Bly)
