What Does Nature Have to Do With Design?

I believe it was Buckminster Fuller who argued that "Nature is always most economical". His main point was that designers have to turn to nature as a point of reference. This is the same idea that is presented by Susan S. Szenasy. It is very interesting how both Fuller and Szenasy made key points such as technology, nature, and power structure. Szenasy quoted that "we should see the world as a system of relationships modeled on nature's own systems." This calls for designers to consider the sustainability factor of nature. Nature's system functions in a harmonious cycle or rather "everlasting" cycle. It is as if every act of nature that occurs today always has tomorrow in mind, and tomorrow will happen with the thought of he next day and so on. In this sense every living being in nature is part of a system, and humans (specifically designers) need to figure out how to work with the thought of tomorrow in mind.
A designer is an advocate and revolutionary, there is no socio-economic force too strong for a brave designer. The designer is supposed to stand for other humans. "To ameliorate the human condition" that is the primary goal of the designer; and there is no better teacher of amelioration then nature. Designers must learn to "work from nature, with nature and for nature." This is the best way for designers and human in general to become responsible and effective.