Standing on top of the Tetons, or appreciating the enormous  Yellowstone Lake, I have realized the big stuff of this planet. I always thought the big things ruled this planet.  the moon, the sky.  It came to my attention, that the small stuff really controls biological  life on this planet.
    I skied one full moon night, from Mammoth to Black Sand basin.  It's almost 50 miles and it was a    -30 trip.  I was exhausted when I lay down on some basin moss to sleep in the warm sun.  I was dozing, and looked down into the moss, and I saw something move.  It was a small bug, being chased by a bigger bug.  I focused a little closer, and the moss was like a forest, similar to to the pine forest, that I just crossed. during the night.  I imagined the distance I had crossed, and I was much like the little bug.  It all was a world within a world.  I had made the crossing of a threshold  into the  world of small.  This world got smaller and smaller, from fungus, to bacteria till I was up against Quantum Physics, and the micro particles of atomic action. It seems the farther Out you go ,  the farther In you get.......