Design With Nature is a notable addition to the handful of important texts that begin, at least in Western tradition, with Hippocrates' famous medical work on Airs, Waters and Places: the first public recognition that man's life, in sickness and in health, is bound up with the forces of nature, and that nature, so far from being opposed and conquered, must rather be treated as an ally and friend, whose ways must be understood, and whose counsel must be respected.