He says that what he focuses on in music is really what drives all of life, every species, every ecosystem. Jack Gladstone, a Grammy-nominated Blackfeet musician living at the edge of Glacier National Park, has an interesting way of framing all this. That takes efficiency, and those species that prove best at it live the longest, and live best. In the most basic sense the purpose of life is to keep more life flowing and unfolding in as many trees, as many butterflies, as many wild roses as the ecosystem will allow. But from a biological perspective, each living being has been fated to work out a puzzle where the name of the game is to make the best use of the essential nourishment sunlight offers, without wasting a drop. So yes, we live on a planet with an endless supply of energy.
Also, whenever a life-form takes in fuel - whether directly from the sun, like a blade of grass, or indirectly, like when the impala eats the grass, or the lion eats the impala, a lot of energy is required to turn it into something usable. Indeed, much of today’s cutting-edge technology is an attempt to mimic biological efficiency, whether we’re talking about bullet trains or vaccines or water filters or wind farms.Įach living being has been fated to make the best use of the essential nourishment sunlight offers, without wasting a drop.Īs it happens, nature loves efficiency because living beings can only capture so much of the energy available to them. Every creature, meanwhile, is flush with an ease of movement and spooling of body functions, showing an efficiency that’s long been the envy of physicists, architects and design engineers. Why would there be efficiency in the face of such abundance? Yet every leaf on every tree is tuned down to the subatomic level for gathering as much light as possible into every pore. Given that all life on the planet comes directly or indirectly from this sunlight, it might seem odd to learn that nature puts an enormous emphasis on efficiency. More energy falls from the sun in just an hour and a half than all the energy humans consume from all sources in an entire year. Writer Gary Ferguson explains the inspiration that we humans can draw from how energy flows in the natural world. IStock From geese flying through the sky in formation to schools of fish swimming in the ocean, the world’s creatures show an efficiency that is the envy of physicists, architects and designers.
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