Occupation: Science Writer Birth: 1958
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….
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability..
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..
Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world.
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years..
Listening to nature's operating instructions..
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world..
Life creates conditions conducive to life..
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 ….
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 about who we are….
What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'.
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, a….
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to a….
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns t….
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 scant fifteen minutes ago, and….