53 Quotes by Janine Benyus

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.

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature – even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe – has to change.

In reality, we haven’t escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that’s now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

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

Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.