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

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 species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

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.

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

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

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 to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.