Complete Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. 1

§. 11. After these things, since the entirety of the water had spread over all the earth, and had penetrated all its parts like a sponge that has soaked up moisture, so that it was at once a swamp and deep mud, with both elements mingled and mixed like a dough into a single, undistinguished, and formless nature, God commands the water, insofar as it was to be salt and the cause of barrenness for crops and trees, to be gathered together, flowing from the pores of the whole earth; and the "dry land to appear," with the fresh moisture left behind for the sake of survival. For the measured fresh moisture is a kind of glue for things that are distinct, and it exists so that the earth might not be entirely dried up and become barren and sterile, and so that it might, like a mother, provide not only one kind of nourishment—food—but both food and drink to its offspring. Therefore, he caused veins to flow, resembling breasts, which, when opened, were to pour forth rivers and springs. Nevertheless, he also extended the invisible moist natures throughout all the tillable and deep-soiled land, for the sake of the most abundant fertility of fruits. Having ordered these things, he gave them names, calling the dry land "earth," and the separated water "sea." Genesis 1:10

§. 12. Then he begins to adorn the earth. He commands it to bring forth greenery and wheat, putting forth all kinds of herbs, grassy fields, and everything that was to be fodder for cattle and food for humans. Furthermore, he also made all the types of trees grow, leaving out none of those called wild or those called cultivated. And everything was immediately heavy with fruit at its first creation, in the opposite manner to what is established now.