"Manual Training Among the Israelites In God's plan for Israel every family had a home on the land with sufficient ground for tilling. Thus were provided both the means and the incentive for a useful, industrious, and self-supporting life. And no devising of men has ever improved upon that plan. To the world's departure from it is owing, to a large degree, the poverty and wretchedness that exist today. CT 275"
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
The EGW passage discusses the value of manual labor and a self-sufficient life connected to the land, contrasting it with the poverty resulting from deviating from this plan. Genesis 3:19 describes the necessity of labor as a consequence of the fall. While not a direct quote, the EGW passage builds upon the theme of labor and its connection to human existence.