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

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.

Don’t judge people for their success or what they have today, when you don’t know their past.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.

When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

Did you hear that! Yuki, the heartless Yuki! Heartless Yuki has begged me with tears to let him visit my shop!

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.