Push your hand deep inside a sack of wheat. Do you find it is warm inside?
There is some heat being produced inside the sack of wheat. The seeds respire and in that process give out some heat.
We see that respiration is a process that takes place in seeds even when some of the other life processes may not
be very active. It may not be very easy to answer our question — “what then is life”? However, looking at all the diversity of
living beings around us, we can conclude that “life is beautiful”!