“I want my words to illuminate like the sun, as I give my daily lecture on photosynthesis to my houseplants.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis. — Vaclav Smil 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
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
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 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
You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all… — Vaclav Smil 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
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
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
“I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung… — joshua ferris 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
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
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
Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats.… — John E. Walker 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
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
“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
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
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
“These kids today. Back then, we couldn't afford photosynthesis. We had to build oxygen from scratch with an atom smasher.” — Tim Hensley 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
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
“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
“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
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
“All the world’s plants capture only about 3,000 of those solar exajoules through the process of photosynthesis.3 All human activities and industries… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Photosynthesis, the activity that ultimately makes all life possible, permits plants to trap energy from the sun and store it in the… — Richard M. Ketchum 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