# Reinventing Fire  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Amory Lovins, Marvin Odum (Foreword), John W. Rowe (Foreword)]] - Full Title:: Reinventing Fire - Category: #books ## Highlights > Caminante, no hay camino Se hace camino al andar Walker, there is no path The path is made by walking —Antonio Machado (1875–1939) ([Location 95](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=95)) > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —John Anster, 1835, loosely paraphrasing Goethe’s Faust, 214–30 ([Location 770](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=770)) > As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) ([Location 3930](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=3930)) > Biologists estimate that a single square mile of jungle has more than a hundred thousand tons of biomass325 that is continually processed and refined into an immense variety of sophisticated products with no mines, no smokestacks, no fossil fuels, and no pollution. In addition, all these processes happen at normal temperature and pressure, with no human operators, no maintenance, no noise, and zero waste: Each step’s products are food for the next. ([Location 3955](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=3955)) # Reinventing Fire  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Amory Lovins, Marvin Odum (Foreword), John W. Rowe (Foreword)]] - Full Title:: Reinventing Fire - Category: #books ## Highlights > Caminante, no hay camino Se hace camino al andar Walker, there is no path The path is made by walking —Antonio Machado (1875–1939) ([Location 95](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=95)) > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —John Anster, 1835, loosely paraphrasing Goethe’s Faust, 214–30 ([Location 770](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=770)) > As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) ([Location 3930](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=3930)) > Biologists estimate that a single square mile of jungle has more than a hundred thousand tons of biomass325 that is continually processed and refined into an immense variety of sophisticated products with no mines, no smokestacks, no fossil fuels, and no pollution. In addition, all these processes happen at normal temperature and pressure, with no human operators, no maintenance, no noise, and zero waste: Each step’s products are food for the next. ([Location 3955](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005PJTNR2&location=3955))