Janine Benyus

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly…

— Janine Benyus

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

— Janine Benyus

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours,…

— Janine Benyus

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

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

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.

— Janine Benyus

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

The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

— Janine Benyus

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

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

— Janine Benyus

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

— Janine Benyus

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in…

— Janine Benyus

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now…

— Janine Benyus

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…

— Janine Benyus

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

— Janine Benyus

Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

— Janine Benyus

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

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

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean…

— Janine Benyus

Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.

— Janine Benyus

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new…

— Janine Benyus

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility…

— Janine Benyus

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents…

— Janine Benyus

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

— Janine Benyus

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental…

— Janine Benyus