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The size difference between the phone and the flash drive illustrate the design principle of proportion.
-Sony Ericsson & USB flash drive.
-My home, Austin, TX, April 20, 2012
"New Zealand’s woody flora contains a large proportion
of divaricating plants, both as shrubs retaining this
form throughout their life, and as the juvenile forms of
some trees (Atkinson and Greenwood, 1989).
Divaricating shrubs make up 10% of the woody flora,
with 50 species (Atkinson and Greenwood, 1989)
distributed through all climates and vegetation types,
from the most humid forests to semi-arid grasslands.
The reason for their abundance and ubiquity has been
a matter of conjecture for at least a century. Diels
(1897) suggested that the divaricating form is a response
to windy and harsh climate during the Pleistocene
glaciations. Greenwood and Atkinson (1977) proposed
that the divaricating habit is a response to past browsing
by the now extinct large flightless ratite birds, the
moas"