"It's not often one can improve upon nature"
(James Lovelock: Independent Scientist/Inventor, Author of Gaia Theory on BBC TVseries, "Beautiful Minds")
Cells are the simplest form of self-contained, self-sustaining life. Everything that we consider to be "alive" is made up of living cells. In "Society and Solitude" (1912) Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:
"all art should to nature for its inspiration, true art resides in the model, in the plan, for it is upon this that the genius of the artist is expended."