Stardust

by Three Authors

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.

~ Aubrey Marcus
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We are stardust, we are golden and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

~ Joni Mitchell, Woodstock
Joni Mithchell — Woodstock (Live at the Big Sur Folk Festival, 1969. Performed on the Esalen deck by the pool!

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