Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?' — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world. — Janine Benyus Copy Share
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form. — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift. — Janine Benyus Copy Share
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles...… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to. — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get. — Janine Benyus Copy Share
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