Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

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.

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.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.

the road is life

I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because I feel accomplished.

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

At concerts it makes me happy to see my Beliebers talking to each other because i made them family.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.