Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant. . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.