In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

How do we love all the children of all species for all time?

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.