Adam

“Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.”
― David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes

“Water drunk more reverently still, from the hands or from the spring itself, diffuses within us the most secret salt of earth and the rain of heaven.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great "Moo.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us by earth; it is to consume a sacrifice wherein we sustain ourselves at the expense of things.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian