Blunders Quote by Oliver Sacks

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…

— Adrian Bejan

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.

— Blake Crouch

Nature moves towards balance.

— Joel Salatin

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to…

— John Hagel

“The forces of nature aren’t arbitrarily selected in some way by chance or design, they are simply the possible directions of time.”

— Gevin Giorbran

Nature works in parallel ways.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

— Robert Smithson

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

— Tom Doak

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and…

— Ramez Naam

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem…

— Michael Pollan