Marcus Chown Quote

Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars. Every flower you pick contains atoms blasted into space by stellar explosions that blazed brighter than a billion suns. Every book you read contains atoms blown across unimaginable gulfs of space and time by the wind between the stars.

The Magic Furnace: The Search For The Origin Of Atoms, Prologue (p. 1), Oxford University Press. 2001