Biodegradation Quotes

Cellulose has physical and chemical properties that make it difficult to access and difficult to break down.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey