"As they witnessed in drooping flower and falling leaf the first signs of decay, Adam and his companion mourned more deeply than men now mourn over their dead. The death of the frail, delicate flowers was indeed a cause of sorrow; but when the goodly trees cast off their leaves, the scene brought vividly to mind the stern fact that death is the portion of every living thing. PP 62.1"
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"
The EGW passage reflects on the impact of death entering the world, as described in Romans 5:12. While not a direct quote, it explores the emotional and psychological consequences of mortality, drawing a thematic parallel to the biblical concept of death as a result of sin.
"The Garden of Eden remained upon the earth long after man had become an outcast from its pleasant paths. The fallen race were long permitted to gaze upon the home of innocence, their entrance barred only by the watching angels. At the cherubim-guarded gate of Paradise the divine glory was revealed. Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here they renewed their vows of obedience to that law the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When the tide of iniquity overspread the world, and the wickedness of men determined their destruction by a flood of waters, the hand that had planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But in the final restitution, when there shall be “a new heaven and a new earth” ( Revelation 21:1 ), it is to be restored more gloriously adorned than at the beginning. PP 62.2"
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."
Ellen White directly references Revelation 21:1 in this passage.
"Then they that have kept God's commandments shall breathe in immortal vigor beneath the tree of life; and through unending ages the inhabitants of sinless worlds shall behold, in that garden of delight, a sample of the perfect work of God's creation, untouched by the curse of sin—a sample of what the whole earth would have become, had man but fulfilled the Creator's glorious plan. PP 62.3"
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."
The EGW passage directly references the tree of life and the blessedness of keeping God's commandments, mirroring the core themes of Revelation 22:14. The connection is strong and explicit.