The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.
What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'
I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
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.
I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature.
I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.
You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
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.
