Fibonacci Flowers

February 19, 2008

I am a geek. I saw this flower, and immidietly began to notice the  Fibonacci sequence that it possesess, especially toward it’s center.  I never was a math person in school. But they never, ever, taught me that math was found in flowers. Imagine if we were taught with an awareness of beauty, with a great realization that things, at least most things have order. If instead of learning the proper punctuation we were instead introduced to poets who never used such things. If instead of calculus we marveled at flowers, instead of memorizing rock formations we went and photographed them. If my high school algebra book had a flower on the front of it, rather than an equation, I would have fallen in love with math. When I looked at this flower, I saw order, I saw beauty, I saw math, in the way it should be.