Nature-Inspired Innovation Quotes

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

There is no better designer then nature

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

There is no better designer than nature

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

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.

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

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.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.