If you look at a tree and think of it as a design assignment, it would be like asking you to make something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, provides habitat for hundreds of species, accrues solar energy's fuel, makes complex sugars and food, changes colors with the seasons, creates microclimates, and self-replicates.


"William McDonough: Godfather of Green", WNYC Studio 360 (18 March 2008).

William McDonough Quotes

If you look at a tree and think of it as a design assignment, it would be like asking you to make something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon,...

If you look at a tree and think of it as a design assignment, it would be like asking you to make something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon,...

If you look at a tree and think of it as a design assignment, it would be like asking you to make something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon,...

If you look at a tree and think of it as a design assignment, it would be like asking you to make something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon,...