A river does not travel in a straight path before reaching the ocean.
A lightening bolt does not follow a straight path before striking the ground.
Planets does not move in a straight path before completing their journey around the Sun.
Most things in nature are not perfectly straight. The horizon is not a straight line at all! Even our DNA strand is not arranged in a straight line.
Straight means inflexible or rigid. Nature favours flexibility. Nature sustains itself by adopting flexible measures.
Human life, which has sprung from nature, also favours flexibility. Flexibility offers a person to come out with multiple options to a problem and devise alternate strategies.
A keen observation of nature reveals this beautiful nature of nature!