25 awe-inspiring photos of geometric shapes found in nature

Sarah SchmalbruchMay 9, 2020, 23:17 IST

The garden displays millions of flowers every year.Yves Herman/Reuters

Nature is home to perfectly formed shapes and vibrant colors.
When seen up close, snowflakes have incredibly perfect geometric shapes.
Circles are found in tree stumps and oceans, while straight lines are seen on beaches and fields.
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Nature truly is home to optical illusions, landmarks, and much more.

Sometimes, you'll even find shapes hidden in nature — a rainbow that's a perfect semi-circle or hexagonal honeycombs.

We rounded up photos of both natural and man-made shapes that can be found in the outside world.

Some of them are more perfect than others, but there's no denying that these images are all breathtaking.

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These dried up blocks used to be part of a pond.

Sand dunes. CHINA OUT/Reuters

The red sand dunes of Namibia create some beautiful shapes.

Desert dunes. Shutterstock.com

These round shapes are created by the sea ice that forms over the Arctic Ocean.

The Arctic ice is thinning. Kathryn Hansen/NASA/Reuters

These rectangular plots make up the Fresno-Clovis Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility in Fresno, California.

Fresno-Clovis Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

These daffodils almost fit into each other.

Daffodils. Toby Melville/Reuters

A rare, perfectly round "supermoon" occurred in September of 2015.

The shadow of the Earth cast a reddish glow on the moon. Matt Cardy/Getty Images

This geometric tourist attraction spans over 300 acres and is located in a small village in China.

The attraction is located in Zunyi in China's Guizhou Province. VCG/Getty Images

The Colle des Mees is France's largest solar farm. The farm is home to 112,780 solar modules, spread out over almost 500 acres.

The farm is located in Les Mees in Southern France. Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters

Keukenhof Park is located in Lisse in the Netherlands and is considered to be the largest flower garden in the world. Its clean borders and vibrant colors are striking.

The garden displays millions of flowers every year. Yves Herman/Reuters

When the sun and moon aligned over Earth in May 2012, the sun turned into this ring for a short period of time.

The solar eclipse as seen from Hirai Daini Elementary School in Tokyo, Japan. Issei Kato/Reuters

The orderly rows in this photo are bales of hay, formed thanks to the tractor.

A field in France. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

These spheres aren't UFOs — they're actually clouds.

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Michael Dorogovich/Shutterstock

Boat trails can look like art from above.

Boats in the ocean. Ivan Brcic/iStock

Stick-straight lines cross through snow-blanketed fields in Mühlethurnen, near Bern, Switzerland.

That looks like one cold horse ride. Michael Buholzer/Reuters

This undated NASA photo shows the moon as well as the borders of the troposphere, the tropopause, and Earth's atmosphere.

The photograph was taken by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station. NASA/Reuters

This palm oil plantation in Indonesia's South Sumatra province looks like four perfect triangles from above.

This photo was taken in 2010. Beawiharta/Reuters

These long rectangular strips form a vegetable field in Thailand's Pathum Thani province.

Farmers work in the field. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

When viewed on a calm day, when the water below is still, it looks as if the Rakotzbrücke creates a perfect circle, thanks to its reflection.

The bridge stretches across the Rakotzsee in Gablenz, Germany. Lukasz Stefansk/Shutterstock

When seen up close, snowflakes have incredibly perfect geometric shapes.

A snowflake. Mike Segar/Reuters

Trees have perfectly round rings.

Tree rings. Igor Cheri/Shutterstock

This amazing double rainbow appeared after heavy monsoon storms.

Nipton Road in Searchlight, Nevada. Gene Blevins/Reuters

It's crazy to think that this intricate web — which is both full of shapes and a shape itself — was made by a spider.

A stunning spider web in Kosovo. Hazir Reka/Reuters

This is an example of "Tessellated Pavement" in Tasmania, Australia.

"Tessellated Pavement" in Tasmania, Australia. Wikimedia/JJ Harrison

These tear-drop-shaped leaves come from an aloe vera plant.

An aloe plant. Sabine Hortebusch/Shutterstock

These honeycombs near Colmar, France, are perfectly hexagonal, but it's the shades of the honey in them that mystified bee keepers.

The unnatural shades were affecting bee clusters throughout the Alsace region in 2012. Vincent Kessler/Reuters

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