
Life clings to this blue planet like a miracle. It is amazing how effective living things are at garnering the energy of the sun and converting it into chemical energy. The basic reaction is to capture a photon in a chemical reaction, combining carbon atoms into a sugar molecule.
It is wonderful how efficient that process is, and awesome to see the proliferation of diversity that has evolved from it.
Even more astonishing to realize that this simple reaction, capturing the waste product of nuclear fusion, has also fueled every idea that every human ever had.
The symphony of life is one of the great discoveries of our time.