Quotes by Janine Benyus

Janine Benyus

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the “spontaneous environmental rapport” that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

Animal

Nature

Writing

After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. …a canon of nature’s laws, strategies, and principles… Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.

Law

Nature

Running

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

Five

Five Years

Years

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.

People

Spiders

Toxic

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

Conscious

Emulation

Genius

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.

Challenges

Design

Ecosystems

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or ‘improving’ nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

Eras

Innovation

Revolution

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Habitat

Revolution

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Cooperation

Pitching

World

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

Bacteria

Trying

Water

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Cooperation

Copying

Design

Discipline

Earth

Ecosystems

Emulation

Eras

Five

Five Years

Forests

Fossils

Friendly

Genius

Habitat

Humility

Ideas

Ifs

Impact

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Lenses

Listening

Mother

Moving

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Quotes by Janine Benyus

Janine Benyus

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

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.

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

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.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

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