There is no record of the original text of this story as told by Maria Montessori. The 'carpets of grass' conclusion is attributed to Mario Montessori. The body of this retelling of The Coming of Life was transcribed by Fahmida Malik.
Today let's hear the story of earth coming to life with plants and all kinds of animals.
And in all that, each particle was given a set of laws. The earth was a beautiful little pearl lit up by her mother, the sun. The sun could not stop looking at it. It looked day and night. One day the sun saw something was not quite in order.