One hungry student-ecologist would get fed for two days and at the end of the trip, hopefully feel as David Attenborough does, "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest."

This level of support feeds two hungry students on our field trip, and help them understand that, "until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere." - Robert Lanza

4 students could eat at Bracken Cave and become one of Sylvia Earle's "...heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it."

This would pay for half the food for the field trip, and help to inspire our students in keeping with one of UT's mottos, What Starts Here Changes the World; "Ideas emerge when part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake." - E. O. Wilson