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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.

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

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
Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Janine Benyus
Habitat, Next, Revolution

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Janine Benyus
World, Pitching, Cooperation

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

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, Thinking, Poison

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

Janine Benyus
Moving, Book, 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
Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.5, Harper Collins

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
Water, Trying, Bacteria

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
Book, Toxic, Use

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

Janine Benyus
Years, Five, Five Years

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