A River Is a Thing That Branches
A James Gleick quote about rivers as fractals, branching at every scale, over a drawing of a river network.
Transcript
[A branching river system, drawn as a fractal] "A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches… its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count." –James Gleick
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-a-river-is-a-thing-that-branches/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)