Category: origins...

What was your original face?
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. (F. Nietzsche)
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. (L. Mumford)
Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past. (John Noble Wilford)
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
the myth of creation is the symbolic narrative of the beginning of the world
four fundamental forces, along with matter-energy and space itself, emerged in a big bang
one planet was fortunate enough to have water and carbon chemistry in the liquid oceans gave rise to living organisms that evolved and eventually conquered the land