"Loqueris terrae et vocas eam ad humanam naturam, et audit te terra et hoc audire eius est fieri hominem."
You speak to the earth and call it to human nature, and it hears you, the earth, and by this its hearing man is made.
Nicholas of Cusa, De visione Dei 10, trans. Salter =40 ll. 16-17 on p. 37 of vol. 6 (2000) of the critical Heidelberg edition (Nicholai de Cusa Opera omnia). Gen 3:19 Vulgate, italics mine: "donec revertaris in terram de qua sumptus es: quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris."
And then there follows this (italics mine): "Thou speakest to that which is nothing as though it were something, and Thou callest nothing to be something, and that which is nothing heareth Thee [(et audit te nihil, and it hears you, [that which was] nothing)] because that which was nothing becometh something."
