Start with the observation

A seed has little material, yet it enters soil and unfolds a form proportioned to light, gravity, water, insects and future seeds.

Follow the reasoning

  1. The seed does not contain the surrounding world as matter, but its development is fitted to that world.
  2. To make the part independently would require knowledge of the conditions that sustain the whole.
  3. The signature in the small thing is therefore not small knowledge.

A passage to hold beside it

“Belief makes the human being truly human; indeed, it may make the human being a sovereign.” 1

Read plainly

A living thing is not an isolated object. It is a precise answer given inside an immense set of conditions.

Try observing this

Open a fruit. Look at the arrangement of skin, flesh and seed as one coordinated promise of continuation.

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