Quote by Daniel Chamovitz

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown…

— Alice Oswald

“These weightless plants were placed on a large rotating centrifuge that mimicked gravitation, much as Knight's waterwheel had years and years earlier. The plants…

— Daniel Chamovitz

“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals…

— Stuart Kauffman

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

— John Hartford

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

— Ernst Mayr

“Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”

— John Green

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they…

— Jay Kappraff

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

— Vladimir Nabokov

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

— Jacqueline Carey

“CIRCLES OF LIFE Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, And Repeats. Circles Of life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate To Breathe,…

— Suzy Kassem

“happens when the Spiral is knocked out of balance. Earthmaker created the universe to have equal portions—Pain and Happiness, Birth and Death, Heat and…

— W. Michael Gear