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.

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

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

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

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

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.