GEN249 The story of Eden begins by pointing us toward the close relationship between humans and the earth: “And YHWH [the Name of God that can only be pronounced by breathing with no vowels, thus “Yahhh, Breath of Life”] formed the adam [human earthling] from the adamah [humus-earth] and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and the human-earthling became a living being.” [this verse]. … What “adam” and “adamah” teach is deeply different from what the world “environment” teaches. The “environment” is in the “environs” –out there, separate from us. The very words adam and adamah are intertwined, and they should teach us not only about language but about the reality that language tries to describe in words.” (By Arthur Waskow, "Jewish Environmental Ethics: Intertwining Adam with Adamah") OXFORD 402-3