Shall we pray for earthly needs?

In the introduction to the Encyclopedia of Prayer (La Preghiera,
Rome 1967) writes about Prof. R. Bocassino’s memories of Central Africa. A primitive woman of the forest trunk is making a clay container. He prays to the gods for clay, stirring and burning. She asks her who taught her. Shrug shoulders: « Who teaches children to cry? They do it themselves. Prayer also goes by heart. »Prayer bursts out of need and uncertainty. Appealing prayer occurs in all religions of the world.
 Prayer 
Most Christian prayers also seem to be of this kind. People pray for field crops, business success, and recovery from illness. It’s not rest, paganism?
Some people have always seemed un-Christian and wanted to discourage the old pagan mentality. Origenes called all earthly worries the term “shade.” None of the people buy the shadow. We only keep the object; its shadow goes with it for free. Thus, according to Origen, we should ask only the right spiritual things; we should not add earthly and physical needs without asking, like a shadow. Holy Thomas Aquinas collected the objections people raise against praying for earthly needs. Prayer is for us to elevate to heaven and not to draw attention to earthly worries, which are often harmful. After all, the gospel itself encourages us not to worry about what we eat or what we are getting dressed for (cf. Mt 6:25). Obviously, however, it is true that even in the Father, we pray for “our daily bread.”