What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'.

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

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 ….

Listening to nature's operating instructions..

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the fut….

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

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms..

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

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 of our world….

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution..

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

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

The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any ….

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

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

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius..

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

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all ab….

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

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

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..