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.

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.