Life creates conditions conducive to life.

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 uses.

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

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

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.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

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