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.

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

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

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

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

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.

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