Page 68 - Design in Nature

Praise be to Allah, to Whom

everything in the heavens and

everything in the earth belongs.
Praise will be His in the

Hereafter. He is the Wise, the

Informed. He knows what
penetrates the earth and what

issues from it, and what falls

down from the sky and what
soars up into it. He is the Most

Merciful, the Ever-Forgiving."

(Surah Saba': 1-2)

The flight of birds is a wonderful type of
movement. Their speed in flight is far
beyond what one could achieve by
running or swimming. Furthermore, the
energy spent per unit distance is also
far less than in running and swimming.