“You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.” WayFeelsBodyCertainHouseEnergyEffectsBuildingColdSkinsHotGlassesWoodsYour BodyStealingHeatConcreteTimberVeneerLimestone Author:Peter Zumthor
“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.” KnowsEndsEnergyCreativityCreativeTalentActivityDrawsMathematicsCookingWoodsDrawingDisasterExperimentsImaginativeCarvingDrivel Author:Julia Child
“Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?” IfsNeedsWritingI CanTwoHardDreamLightTurnsEnergyFitLatePatientPerseveranceWoodsToo LateStubbornVividImageryHintsOmenHassleRollercoasterTwo Roads Author:Danny Denzongpa
“How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?” GovernmentNamesEnergyNaturalWoodsOilAgencyGasTransitionCoalNatural Gas Author:Milton Friedman
“Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.” FactsLife IsEnergyCuttingBuiltWoodsFleshDustPhenomenonFuryPrimalHacksLifelessBaffled Author:Donald C. Peattie
“In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the process of photosynthesis whereas now in human built environment our source of energy is from fossil fuels, renewable, wood energy or hydro-energy but it is not from the sun. So until we are able to operate and run a human built environment by imitating photosynthesis it will be a long while before we can have a true eco-system.” HumansLongRunningAbleEnergyProcessSunEnvironmentSourceBuiltWoodsFuelFossilsFossil FuelEcologicalImitatingEcoPhotosynthesisBuilt Environment Author:Ken Yeang