Earth (classical element)

Earth is one of the classical elements along with air, fire, and water.

Quotes

 * If this earth element were exclusively suffering, immersed in suffering, steeped in suffering, and if it were not [also] steeped in pleasure, beings would not become enamoured with it. But because the earth element is pleasurable, immersed in pleasure, steeped in pleasure, and is not steeped [only] in suffering, beings become enamoured with it.
 * Gautama Buddha, Saṃyutta Nikāya, Book II, Sutta 14, Verse 34, as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (2000), p. 648