Clay (n.) punishes in the kiln whatever was rushed on the wheel.
Clay (n.) is like an idea that stays editable until the heat arrives.
Clay (n.) keeps the fingerprints of every decision.
Dirt (n.) is only matter out of place.
Dirt (n.) is dirtiest upon clean white linen
Dirt (n.) is dirt but takes a part in work.
Dirt (n.) is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.
Mud (n.) is dirt that has learned to follow you inside.
Mud (n.) is sold by the jar at a spa and scraped off boots at the farmhouse door.
Mud (n.) is noted for its plasticity and is related, by analogy, with biological processes and nascent states.
Mud (n.) is reflective of the union of the purely receptive principle (earth) with the power of transition and transformation (water).
Soil (n.) is made slowly and lost in an afternoon.
Soil (n.) is sold in bags to people standing on it.
Soil (n.) is the basis of everything.
Soil (n.) is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.