Barbara

“Life has made our planet the place it is, interacting with the geology and incorporating itself into the ground rock that makes up Earth. But we must remember that we are quite literally made of stardust and we will, in the far and distant future, when our Sun has taken its final breaths, return to stardust once again”
― Natalie Starkey, Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

“Don't forget about the stardust. Don't forget about the quartz rocks in the woods. You are small. But you are also so much more.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, May Bird Among the Stars

“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing