"It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat - keel, rudder, and bows - and, in the finer fluid above, the form and tackle of the sails ...  Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man’s life seems insignificant.  He seems to take his task so minutely from imitations of Nature that his works become as it were hers …"

-R.W. Emerson