the universal code of nature

the spacing of the branches of this motherwort look very fibonacci-ish to me. the fibonacci sequence appears to be the fundamental characteristic of the universe. it’s a simple series where each consecutive number in the series is found by adding up the two numbers before it: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … it’s that simple. and it shows up everywhere in nature–the number of petals in a flowers, the arrangement of seeds in a seed head, the spiraling arrangement in pinecones, pineapples, and cauliflower, the branching of trees,  the logarithmic spirals in shells, the spiral shapes of galaxies, and hurricanes, the geometry of the human face, the length of of section of the finger from tip to wrist, the proportions of animal bodies like dolphins, starfish, sand dollars, sea urchins, ants, honey bees and humans (the measurement from the navel to the floor and the top of the head to the navel is the golden ratio), honey bee colony dynamics (the ration of males to females), animal flight patterns, and DNA molecules– to name a few. it seems to me to be THE universal code of nature. google “fibonacci in nature” and you will see the nearly inexhaustible list of examples. like anything, once it’s pointed out to you, you will start to see it everywhere.

motherwort in bloom (Leonurus cardiaca)