We must understand how nature sustains the web of life. How have ecosystems organized themselves to sustain the basic life processes over billions of years of evolution? How can they flourish with an abundance of energy and without waste? How does nature manufacture surfaces that are harder than our hardest high-tech ceramics and silk threads that, ounce for ounce, are five times stronger than steel? And how are these miracle materials produced silently, at ambient temperatures, and without any toxic by products?
