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. Janine Benyus More Quotes by Janine Benyus More Quotes From 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. Janine Benyus impact discipline writing Listening to nature's operating instructions. Janine Benyus instruction listening Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Janine Benyus block poison thinking Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius. Janine Benyus emulation genius conscious Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. Janine Benyus nature humility animal 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. Janine Benyus stress bridges tree There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms. Janine Benyus organisms ideas Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world Janine Benyus pitching cooperation world For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says. Janine Benyus nature animal thinking 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. Janine Benyus nature animal wind 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. Janine Benyus nature real animal Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones. Janine Benyus toxic use book Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution. Janine Benyus habitat next revolution Biological knowledge is doubling every five years. Janine Benyus five-years five years Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water. Janine Benyus bacteria trying water Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to. Janine Benyus going say more australia Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together. Janine Benyus just-because just things together We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive? Janine Benyus place go myself care Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself. Janine Benyus itself clean use life Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000. Janine Benyus aids die car people
