Earthly Origins Quotes

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

For we are all sprung from earth and water

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.