Design by Nature: Part 3

"The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." - Walt Whitman

Texture and pattern occur everywhere in nature. While both texture and pattern are ways we can describe what we see around us, texture has to do with the way things look and feel, while pattern is a repeating visual element. Like the other elements, both are functional in a plant or animal's survival whether it's varying forms of feathers that allow birds to fly or stay warm, or the use of pattern by mollusks to make their shells.

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