Every atom in this body existed before organic life emerged 4000 million years ago.
— John Seed (1988, 36)
Everything is actually everything else, recycled.
— anon
Body structure is always involved in some processes, else it disintegrates. It is a structure from process, for further process, and only so.
— Gendlin (1998, I)
Ye are all created out of water, and unto dust shall ye return.
— Bahá’u’lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas ¶148
This ourth of years is not save brickdust and being humus the same roturns.
— Finnegans Wake, 18