Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

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.

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

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.