Unraveling the Mystery of Biological Beings: Exploring Life and Purpose on Earth

• Biomimicry is relevant to any number of—and actually all—questions that we face

• It is easy to hold on to separation. To retreat into division. To let exhaustion take over. But we are all fighting in our own way. Not just on the streets, but in the care that we offer one another. Resistance is not always loud or glamorous. Sometimes it is simply the refusal to let go of connection.” -Shreya Chaudhuri, UC Berkeley

• "The future we want is already here. The story we need, we're embedded within. We must tell it again and again and again. That's how we make it true." -Baratunde Thurston, Writer, Producer, Proud Earthling

  
  

• "We know that if we change the way we are and our behaviors, in a very short amount of time, we can actually free some of the horrible things that have happened." -Corrina Gould, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

  
  

• "Great land conservation always begins at home. It begins with the people who know the landscape. It begins with the people who know how it smells and who have lived there for centuries. Indigenous and locally led land conservation is exceptionally important, and that is what we support." -Haley Mellin, Artist and Land Conservationist

  
  

• "I’m challenging all of us as we do our work to not just oppose things like AI theoretically but to call on your own humanity and think about what you can do to replace whatever AI is promising." -Claire Hope Cummings, Lawyer, Journalist & Author

  
  

• "Biomimicry is relevant to any number of—and actually all—questions that we face. The idea is to take a few examples that people know and find ways to apply them in our own lives and in the decisions we're making." -Andrew Howley, Biomimicry Institute

  
  

• "When you treat nature as a relative in whatever capacity she manifests herself, and whatever cause you feel called to, it is the relationship that one has to their family. And

  
  
  
  

  that takes love, and that takes work, and that takes years." -Britt Gondolfi, Bioneers