Brain Dettmer's Amazing Process of Recycling Books

I'm sitting in the GSA library getting the low down on  Blogger's  extra tips and tricks by Gaylie and I found a site thats dedicated to really amazing art and design projects and other stuff thats basically awesome! Its called Fubiz and it lives up to its slogan "daily dose of inspiration" as i have already found amazingly intricate sculptures by Brian Dettmer made from old books that has got me thinking about recycling.         

http://www.fubiz.net/2011/02/28/sculpture-books/

Its truly a great way to recycle and if we all recycled with this much creativity the world would probably be a more beautiful place!  Everything from nature almost recycles itself in a way yet we create man made products etc. that are non recyclable and damage the earth as a result.  We break the natural cycle. It is an obviously major problem that everyone knows about, but are we natures rival?  What would have happened if we hadn't done the damage we've done? and what does that say about us?