“Pick up a handful of dirt from a field or a forest floor, and you’ll be holding more microbes in your hand than there are stars in the galaxy. Through soils, we can see how our bodies and our lives are also a tightly woven tapestry of the living and non-living worlds. It’s not just us over here and the world over there. Each of us is part of a cosmic fabric of matter, energy and change whose strands can never be separated. “

- Astrophysicist Adam Frank