There are countless examples of designs in nature that contain golden ratio proportions, including nautilus shells, meadow daisies, pinecones, sunflowers, and the human body. A few of these are shown below.
Branches
Clockwise from Top Left: The Fibonacci sequence appears throughout nature. Here we see it in the number of branches and leaves of a simple meadow daisy. Two opposite sets of spirals combine to form the design of a flower, and again the spiral
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rows follow the Fibonacci sequence. Here a large head is formed by 21 rows of seeds that flow counterclockwise and 34 rows of seeds that cross clockwise. This same phenomenon can be seen in the pineapple. The human figure contains golden ratio pro-
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C H A P T E R TWO:
portions at a number of different levels.
DESIGN