...F
ortunately, in the midst of all this struggle,
I found the honeybee.
Instead of efficient,
effective.
Instead of rigid,
resilient.
Instead of synethic complexity,
elegant simplicity.
Instead of maximized, optimized.
I
t is the disruptions in nature, and the responses to them, that can teach us the most.
T
he greatest investors I know go out into the world, observing, interacting, gathering information.
I
believe that systems we create do exactly what we designed them to do--
and that therefore we have the power to change them to do different, better things.
I
believe that bridges are better than boxes...that the natural world offers insights more powerful than those our imaginations could ever create... that most people, most of the time, want to “bend towards justice.�
A
s we attune to our own contexts, our local environments,
our investing naturally becomes more connected.
Nature is not separate from us--we are nature.
For effective biomimicry practice, we need to quiet our cleverness.
We need to observe with an open mind-set, without actively seeking an answer right away.
There are no toxic dumps...
in nature.
Try to look-
without searching.
Try to listen-
without hunting.
Wait-
Go outside. Breathe deep. Again.
just a little while.
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
--Plato