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

- Janine Benyus

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…

- Janine Benyus

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate…

- Janine Benyus

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

- Janine Benyus

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…

- Janine Benyus

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

- Janine Benyus

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

- Janine Benyus

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…

- Janine Benyus

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

- Janine Benyus