The amazing sunflower

Sunflowers always seem bright and happy as they twist and turn to follow the sun through the course of a day. Sometimes we see a few along the road, but occasionally we find a whole field of them. We found one Pennsylvania corn farmer who, instead of letting a fifty acre field go fallow for a year, planted sunflowers. From a distance it glowed, but as we go closer, we could see probably millions of individual blossoms that were all the same. Yes, sunflowers are all the mathematically consistent in structure. Other than the shape of their petals, they are identical.

Perhaps that's why we feel such a sense of peace when we see a sunflower. Its beauty is unchanging and predictable, year after year.