Janine Benyus Quotes

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

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  Lenses, Needs, Answers

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

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  What If, Solve, Ifs

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• Cuanto más funcione nuestro mundo como el natural, más probabilidades tendremos de perdurar en este hogar que es nuestro, pero no sólo nuestro.

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  Inspirational, Change, Mother

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• Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

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  Innovation, Eras, Revolution

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Tras décadas de fiel estudio, los ecologistas han empezado a desentrañar semejanzas ocultas entre muchos sistemas entrelazados. ...un canon de leyes, estrategias y principios de la naturaleza...
  La naturaleza funciona con luz solar.
  La naturaleza utiliza sólo la energía que necesita.
  La naturaleza adapta la forma a la función.
  La naturaleza lo recicla todo.
  La naturaleza recompensa la cooperación.
  La naturaleza apuesta por la diversidad.
  La naturaleza exige experiencia local.
  La naturaleza frena los excesos desde dentro.
  La naturaleza aprovecha el poder de los límites.

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  Running, Nature, Law

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

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  Cities, Forests, Sustainability

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

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  Answers, Planets, Our Planet

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• 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.

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  Ecosystems, Design, Challenges

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• For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

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  Song, Nature, Our World

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• There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

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  Ecosystems, Cities, Copying

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• Life creates conditions conducive to life.

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  Biomimicry, Conditions

  "Episode 26: Biomimicry: Janine Benyus is Honored by TIME". "Living Green" with Meredith Medland, podcasts.personallifemedia.com.

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• 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.

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  Burning Fossil Fuels, Want, Fossils

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• Si la edad de la Tierra fuera un año natural y el día de hoy fuera un suspiro antes de la medianoche de Nochevieja, habríamos aparecido hace apenas quince minutos, y toda la historia registrada habría parpadeado en los últimos sesenta segundos. Por suerte para nosotros, nuestros compañeros de planeta -el fantástico entramado de plantas, animales y microbios- llevan perfeccionando pacientemente sus productos desde marzo, unos increíbles 3.800 millones de años desde la primera bacteria. ...Tras 3.800 millones de años de investigación y desarrollo, los fracasos son fósiles, y lo que nos rodea es el secreto de la supervivencia.

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  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

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  Smart, Design, Friendly

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• 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.

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  Naturaleza, Humildad, Animal

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

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  Nature, Writing, Animal

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• Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

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  Genius, Emulation, Conscious

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

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  People, Toxic, Spiders

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• There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

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  Ideas, Organisms

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• 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.

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  Resilience, Use, World

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• Listening to nature's operating instructions.

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  Listening, Instruction

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• If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

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  Nature, Animal, Tools

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

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  Nature, Animal, Reality

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

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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.

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  Stress, Bridges, Tree

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• 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.

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  Writing, Impact, Discipline

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