Meanings of emulate nature in English

One charm of this part of Derbyshire is the intermixture of cultivation and wild nature, or woods so planted as to well emulate nature.

So it's no surprise that some computer scientists want to go back to the drawing board and try building computers that more closely emulate nature.

But it remains for modern times to emulate Nature and carry on analysis and synthesis at once.

The concept of emulating nature's energy-generating process has been around for decades and many scientists have tried to create leaves in that time.