Quotes About Biomimicry

#1. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. - Author: Will Cuppy

#2. 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. - Author: Janine Benyus

#3. 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. - Author: Sharon Weil

#4. 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. - Author: Janine Benyus

#5. Biomimicry is ... the conscious emulation of life's genius. - Author: Janine Benyus

#6. After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival. - Author: Janine M. Benyus

#7. I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.' - Author: Don Lemon

#8. And if there is any part of my heart left to break, it breaks with his confusion. - Author: Katja Millay

#9. I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler. - Author: Dick Van Dyke

#10. For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn't work. - Author: Marion Cotillard

#11. You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself. - Author: Bryant McGill

#12. 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. - Author: Janine Benyus

#13. What is faith if it is not translated into action? - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner! - Author: Red Buttons

#15. I used to try and forget, now I desperately try to remember.
I used to control my thoughts, now they control me.
I used to fear death, now I fear life. - Author: Lynn Marie Smith

#16. Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water. - Author: Janine Benyus

#17. The world is not full of assholes. But, they are strategically placed so that you'll come across one every day. - Author: Genna Rulon

#18. And pain does not matter to a man. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,