Tom Paul --
You write: "[A]re there fundamental laws of nature that involve nature's elements and how they interrelate with each other? Like wind and water on sand, on dunes and on turf, for instance? I would not be so quick to dismiss that, if I were you."
I DIDN'T dismiss that. I didn't do anything of the sort!
I dismissed -- or, more accurately, doubted -- this line by Dr. Mac: "When these elements obey the fundamental laws of balance, of harmony and fine proportion, they give rise to what we call beauty."
If the good Doctor had written with as much humility as you do, I probably wouldn't have doubted him, much less dismissed him.