"Seeing the Tree for the Forest"

One of my favorite recent sub-features at McSweeney's is Lawrence Weschler's Convergences Contest. I am stunned yet again with today's artful entry (#28), sent to L.W. by Walter Murch:

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[caption from the site: "Logging trees in a Swedish forest, as seen from the air"]

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Wow! That's way cool... A beautiful example of a fractal emerging from (human) nature. Thanks for pointing it out.