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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smile to lighten up.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.