Science writer, innovation consultant, conservationist and self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus is the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, a book that has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature’s successes can inspire humanity. GLIMMER researcher Tiffany Meyers conducted this interview with Benyus.
“I’d say if you’re going to design your life, design for the hunter and gatherer.”
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.
The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
I have a tendency to type out pages/lines/sentences that I find really inspirational as I’m reading along. This one……unfortunetely I didn’t cite! So I’m no exactly sure who wrote it………. but my guess would be Natalie Goldberg. Her words are very moving, in a very simple way!
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Tomorrow…….Oct. 23rd is the opening of the movie about Amelia Earhart! I’m so excited to see it, I’ll be catching the matinee 
Her spirtit inspires me. She loved adventure and seeing different people and places. She was determined and felt FREE up in the sky, flying above,away from it all! I love how she JUST WENT FOR IT!
The actress who plays Amelia is Hilary Swank and from what I can tell………..this movie is going to be a hit. Maybe it wil encourage a burst of want to be pilots……..to be pilots
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Stream of Life
by Rabindranath Tagore
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
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Wesley, in the Out Of Africa room, at the bed and breakfast we stayed at for our family reunion, that comes around every three years.
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