consider the humble seed, that diminutive bearer of a plant's desire; simple in form & unassuming in appearance, it nevertheless contains a miracle. so ubiquitous, its easy to forget each is a viable embryo, stemming from an unbroken continuous chain out of the primordial soup

every single seed contains the spark of life, that miraculous property which endows some portion of matter with the ability to self-perpetuate, to reorganize the world around it in its effort to externalize entropy and maintain internal coherence.

a seed is potential incarnate.

it is a biological program, tightly compressed, awaiting the right substrate; once planted, it executes, unfolding the template for its predestined phenotype, extending influence into the surrounding space. the program is self-contained, including blueprints and 3d printer both.

how wondrous is it that such a small thing can bring into existence something so much larger? that it contains an algorithm for recreating its progenitor, that such an incredible machine can even exist in such a miniscule form factor? human engineering has nothing on nature; yet