All Janine Benyus Quotes
- For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… Been
- Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution… Accustomed
- There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the… Biomimicry
- When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. Cities
- Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius. Biomimicry
- Life creates conditions conducive to life. Conditions
- Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world Cooperation
- Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the… Biomimic
- The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world. Answers
- There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms. Funny
- The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours… Alone
- Listening to nature's operating instructions. Inspirational
- Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn. Already Solved
- For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as… Biologist
- The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us. All
- What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?' Asked
- If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves… Basic
- 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. All
- A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own… American
- If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a… Age