“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza. Here in Biosphere 1 [Earth], well it takes me about two minutes, because I pick up the phone and I call and say, ‘Hey, can you deliver the pizza?’”
— Jane Poynter
Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
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“The day I walked into Biosphere 2, I was, for the first time, breathing a completely different atmosphere than everybody else in the world.”
— Jane Poynter
Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
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“[Inside Biosphere 2,] I literally was eating the same carbon over and over again. I was eating myself in some strange sort of bizarre way.”
— Jane Poynter
Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
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