"In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
More by Leonardo Da Vinci
“A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.”
“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.”
“Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.”
More on Nature
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
“A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.”
“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”