Nature and Geometry

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The beginning of creation Geometry is a common subject used in our daily lives. Basic shapes, such as squares, circles, and triangles are used everywhere you look. Tree trunks and a planet’s rings are circular. Many insects and bugs are bilaterally symmetrical. This means that one half of a body would be a mirror image of the other. Spider webs consist of hexagons. The beehive is a mass of hexagonal cells made out of wax. There are millions of examples of when geometry is used in the wild. Geometry is important because many things occurring in nature would not exist if not for geometry. Fractals such as coastlines, earthquakes, rivers, and mountains are all examples of geometry in nature. The golden spiral or golden ratio is present in things like spiral galaxies and nautilus shells. Geometry is a commonly used subject in nature. After humans discovered the broad use of geometry, we began to apply it to our daily lives. Pillars are known to be cylinders, and the arches of doorways are semicircles. Our folders, rulers, and notebooks are all rectangular. Basketballs, Planets, and our sun are all spheres. Shapes are key factors in our daily lives. We decided to choose this topic because many people wonder how geometry is applied in nature. Shapes are everywhere, and we just don’t realize it. This is a broad, unexplored topic, and we thought it should be known. Geometry is a Greek word meaning earth measure. The ancients spent significant time studying nature in response to the pervasiveness of geometry found throughout the natural world. Their observations confirmed the order of the universe set in motion by the Creator of All That Is. These realizations lead to the incorporation of natural geometry in the design and proportion of their sacred places. Geometry in nature is the science of sacred geometry. "Come into the light of things; let nature be
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