The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“It could be expected that further investigations of Plastocyanin dimorphism would reveal new secrets related to photosynthesis – the most significant process,… — Dr. Mitko I. Dimitrov Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the… — Mike deGruy Copy Share Image
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“That all plants immediately and substantially stem from the element water alone I have learnt from the following experiment. I took an… — Jan Baptist van Helmont Copy Share Image
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2)… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but… — Jan Ingenhousz Copy Share Image
This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
“There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming… — Jan Ingenhousz Copy Share Image
There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
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