Biomimicry Quotes

“If you wanna better understand capital productivity, study trees. They can turn a bare plot of earth into massive amounts of materials consistently and endlessly. Imagine if we can mimic that in business and investing.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Biomimicry is known for its design applications. But biomimicry also has an abundance of business applications. When businesses learn from nature and apply what they learn; the results include greater efficiency and more profit, among other things.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.”
― Janine M. Benyus

“We are at stake to each other...We are all lichens, so we can be scraped off the rocks by the Furies, who still erupt to avenge crimes against the Earth. Alternatively, we can join in the metabolic transformations between and among rocks and critters, for living and dying well. "Do you realize," the phytolinguists will say to the aesthetic critic, "that once upon a time, they couldn't even read eggplant?" And they will smile at our ignorance, as they pick up their rucksacks and hike on up to read the newly deciphered lyrics of the lichen on the north face of Pike's Peak.”
― Donna Haraway, "Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene" (Chapter 2)

“Biomimicry is not meant to be taken as an end-all, be-all; it serves as inspiration within a set of limitations. Evolution does not have an inventive mind like engineers, and animals have biological constraints such as the need to eat, reproduce, and defecate—necessities our products and machines can go without. However, biological designs can provide fresh solutions to old paradigms.”
― Kristy Hamilton, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation

“The environment is a source of data, it forces us to follow its behavior.”
― Ines J. Pedras, Endless Biomimicry Habitat : with Kiesler's Endless House

“Having the awareness of organisations being operating systems, you can then look beyond the mechanism of an organisation to the organism.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Create an organization that is regenerative by design, fair and just, where its contributions are greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit