This is an amazing truth, popularized by scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lawrence Krauss, not to mention the “We Are All Connected” video by Symphony of Science:
For most of my life, i would often ponder & amaze myself with the truth that the water & air we’re breathing is the same stuff the dinosaurs drank. My vision was narrow, but it hinted at a broader truth: Not only are we sustained by the same resources which have sustained life on Earth since life began, but our very atoms are tied to the past.