“There is life in all matter, throughout the vast extent of all eternities; it is in the rock, the sand, the dust, in water, air, the gases, and, in short, in every description and organization of matter, whether it be solid, liquid, or gaseous, particle operating with particle.”

Brigham Young – 23 March 1856, Journal of Discourses – Volume 3 (Liverpool, England: Orson Pratt, 1856), 277.