Biomimicry is considered a revolutionary new science. But I would disagree with that. Long ago the indigenous people would work with and follow the rhythms of nature allowing us to thrive in the natural world. It has only been more recently in the last hundred years that many cultures have turned their backs on nature and have tried to improve on, in a minute speck of time, what nature has taken eons to create. Now that we as a society are slowly coming out of our collective vanity in regards to believing that we can do better without her help, the “revolutionary” new science, biomimicry, is born. This science analyses natures ideas and adaptations for what appears to be working and follows natures lead.
I believe most of us have been subjected to walking along a garden path to be “cloths lined” by a thin, imperceivable spider web anchor line. How can something so small and thin that is spun from an arachnid be a waterproof fiber that is five times stronger than steel.
Spider’s Web
The study of this, biomimicry, is our attempt to replicate or mimic what this arachnid is making.
There are also observations that that can be seen in nature, such as watching bees and understanding how they became brilliant mathematicians. Through their evolution, bees have learned the most efficient way to store the most amount of their honey is by using a hexagonal shape which also uses the least amount of resources.
Bees Honeycomb
If you are able to spend any time out in nature and are able to look carefully at her creations, you can unleash a wealth of information tucked away in her archives that could create ingenious solutions for our survival. Something that plants have been doing for millennia, converting sunlight into fuel, we are still stumbling around in the dark. But if we can study it and understand then a whole new world opens up to us.