Some thoughts on Soil

Max and I have been here at Casa Amarilla for two weeks now. The soil here is thick, rich, wet, and soft -very different from the soil at Puquelehue, which is dry, sometimes sandy, and other times hard as sedimentary rock. I'm wondering whether the attitude of farmers is strongly influenced by the attitude of their soil, because the people here are much more easy-going, and they come from a place of abundance rather than scarcity in their dealings with the volunteers. From my sample size of two, I see a strong correlation; but without more data points, it is surely statitstically insignificant.