You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
-- Jacob Bronowski
   
Jacob Bronowski   Name:
Jacob Bronowski
Type:
Scientist
Nationality:
English
Birth:
September 1, 1908
Death:
August 22, 1974
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