Curves
Nature favours curves over straight lines. It designs using circles, cylinders, cones and spheres, rather than squares, cubes, triangles and pyramids. That’s because nature is dynamic, in a continual dance of interaction and adaptation. Nature is fluid; it flows and grows. And humans are part of nature, which is why we find beauty in organic shapes: spirals and fractals in flowers, currents and waves in clouds. I have a log covered in the patterns left by a wood-boring insect, which is exquisite with its curves and curls, its loops and hoops. There’s art in nature for those who look.
— Wayne Visser
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