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.

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.

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.

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

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

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

The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism

Be careful what you wish for

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

Don't play hard to get, play hard to forget.

I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.