We live and we die, but we are made of sterner.... : Quote by Keith Heyer Meldahl

“ We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our bones, the iron atoms in our blood -- all the countless trillions of atoms of which we are made -- are ancient objects. They existed before us, before the Earth itself, in fact. And after each of us dies, they will depart from our bodies and do other things. Forever. ”

Keith Heyer Meldahl
  • From : Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
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