If we could zoom way in on the small seedling leaves, I like to think that we would see specks of dust with tiny lichens growing on the dust specks.
And we know that if we put the lichens under a microscope,
we would see many teeny-tiny green algae growing inside each lichen cells.
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
- Augustus De Morgan
- British mathematician
- he coined the term "mathematical induction"
