Biomimetics: Index of Natural Imitations

(the production of natural-life mimics)

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect
and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)