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The distinctive trait of shapes in nature

In a biophilic year archive

The leaves of one tree look alike yet none is a copy, where the built world tends towards the exactly identical. That small difference turns out to matter to how a space is felt.

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This essay is part of A Biophilic Year Archive, available with the book A Biophilic Year: 365 thoughts on the essence and practice of biophilic design.