Miss the Forest for the Trees
A mock Robert Frost couplet: you can't miss the forest for the trees when every tree, branching fractally, contains a forest of its own.
Transcript
[Bare, branching trees] "To miss the forest for the trees – that phrase is strange to me. How can you miss the forest when there's one in every tree?" –Robert Frost, probably
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-miss-the-forest-for-the-trees/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)