I used to want to be an astrophysicist and study what I thought was nature at her finest. I'd look at those beautiful Hubble Space Telescope images and want to know what could be going on at the edges of the universe, at the beginning of time. But since I've been involved with the Living Machine, I've found a new interest in nature. I look around at our electrically plastified post-industrial culture and wonder what other parts of it could be replaced by natural, ecologically designed systems. Ecological design just feels right.
Nature is so incredibly efficient.
More than we could ever design. That's nature at her finest. The side of the Living Machine experiment I am most excited about is its potential impact. I wonder what seeds the Old Botany Living Machine will sow. The Penn State Living Machine is funded by the Class 2000 gift and the Class of 1950.