“The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.”
“Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.”
“Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.”
“Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.”
“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.Your first parent was a star.”
“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”