Curve–a line or outline that gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length.
Bend.
Loop.
Twist.
Snake.
Undulate.
Spiral.
Ripple.
Meander.
The curves know that nature isn’t linear. Or is it?
8 thoughts on “Nature Isn’t Linear”
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wondermyway 
I hope “twist” isn’t oriental bittersweet. I give up, what is “spiral”?
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You are an artist!
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More like nature is the artist, Mary ;-) Poetry workshop is on the GLLT schedule for this summer. I hope you can join us.
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Hey Larry, unfortunately the twist is oriental bittersweet–in Pondicherry Park. But in a way, the structure is a statue that could be used to educate all about how bittersweet can strangle a tree. As for the spiral–that was the spore surface of a fungi. I’m not positive about the ID, but think it may have been Hexagonal-pored polypore (Polyporus alveolaris). All of these I took in the park today.
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A wonderful posting, and if you don’t already know it, you might like D’Arcy Thompson’s glorious book On Growth and Form, a classic from 1945 on the mathematics of natural shapes.
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Thanks Myip. I’ll look for that book as I’m not familiar with it.
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Pretty!
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Thanks Dennis.
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