Nature is my sanctuary

I can't even fathom how many shades and textures of green are in this picture. I would imagine there's more than 30 different species of plants and mosses in it, plus others I cannot see. Some, like the Sword Fern on the right, will be only in the watershed for a few months. Others, like the Oxalis clover at the bottom, persist about half of the year, and the mosses are constantly changing and growing. The trees remain year after year, the fallen ones decomposing and making homes for new plants. As the watershed gets older, it gets more complex. You can solve bioenergetics equations and put some numbers on the increasing entropy of the site. Or you can look at this picture. A picture is worth, in this case, quite a large number of bytes.