Jean Henri Fabre Quote

The logarithmic spiral of the mollusc is as old as the centuries. It proceeds from the Sovran Geometry Which rules the world, attentive alike to the Wasp's cell and to the Snail's spiral.


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Mason-Wasps, Insect Geometry (p. 237), Dodd, Mead & Co. 1919


The logarithmic spiral of the mollusc is as old as the centuries. It proceeds from the Sovran Geometry Which rules the world, attentive alike to the...

The logarithmic spiral of the mollusc is as old as the centuries. It proceeds from the Sovran Geometry Which rules the world, attentive alike to the...

The logarithmic spiral of the mollusc is as old as the centuries. It proceeds from the Sovran Geometry Which rules the world, attentive alike to the...

The logarithmic spiral of the mollusc is as old as the centuries. It proceeds from the Sovran Geometry Which rules the world, attentive alike to the...