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.

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

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.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

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

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

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.

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

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

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

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

I could survive for months, years, on a crush.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.