This book is definitely within my bailiwick. The photos of natural forms and geometries, bound by the "laws" of physics and biology are striking and fascinating. The arrays of photos, for example, showing square images of animal fur, bird feather patterns, and sea creatures, form a vivid representation of some of the ideas that I have been pondering for art projects.

The chapter headings convey key concepts that I'd like to explore in more detail, including symmetry, fractals, spirals, wave forms, bubbles and foam, arrays and tiles, cracks, and spots/stripes. Of special interest to me are the nine-square arrays of photographs that take up entire pages of this colorful "coffee-table" book, bringing together my visualizations of quilt and woven patterning, and observations from the natural world and the garden. Biophilia, indeed!