Life creates conditions conducive to life.

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.

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

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

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

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 to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.