If we can’t live in a place that is our home, I think we do place-making in our homes. I feel at home here and feeling at home for an organism is feeling like you can excel where you are. My whole background is about habitat selection and place-making in animals. He said, “This is what it means to feel at home.” This is my real deep love, understanding place, understanding how organisms fit into their particular homes. Your question touches on the question I’m trying to answer in my next book: What is that unique quality that you experience when you walk into a place you call home? I asked a friend from Norway about this and he pantomimed his shoulders being pinned to his ears, and then dropping. Settings affect us by making us feel safe or afraid, calm or nervous, at home or out of our element. It means home. We’re in constant communication with our surroundings in way that we don’t recognize. Thank you for inviting me to visit with you in Montana. Benyus, who has defined biomimicry as “the conscious emulation of life’s genius,” was interviewed by then Center president Masao Yokota at her home in Montana in spring 2004. Her lecture, entitled “Echoing Nature: Lessons for a Sustainable Future,” was co-sponsored by the Wellesley Centers for Women and the Boston Research Center. She delivered the Rachel Carson Lecture on Environmental Ethics at the Center in February 2004. Benyus provided the impetus for the development of biomimicry with the publication of her renowned book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (William Morrow, 1997).
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