Vaclav Smil Quotes
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.