It’s found in commonly through nature and often in design (whether intended or by coincidence).
Was wondering if anyone knew exactly why it was so common especially in nature.
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Got some cool answers here, all nicely based in metaphors concerned with observable science. A more poetic one is that fundamentally, all of life is the same at it’s root.
there is a great book called “The Golden Ratio” that discusses the history of just this. It also looks at a lot of common occurrences of it in art and architecture and (as I recall) concludes that a LOT of them require some fudging to really fit the correct ratio.
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