The world in a drop

Look closely at the drop of water emerging and falling off the icicle in this photo.
Okay, what you see in there is not the whole world; it's an upside down image of just one stretch of one street in a small city in Ohio.
If we looked under a microscope, the world we would see would not be a microcosm of the street where I walk my dog; it would be its own cosmos, a world of microrganism, dust fragments of crystallized water-ice, minerals, atoms once in a supernova, and cells from leaves in the rain gutter from which this icicle formed.

Whatever world we see when we look up close, or when we step back and look at the big picture, we can still engage our sense of wonder by looking.  Ultimately, the world we form, the world of images and patterns assembled into knowledge and wisdom, exists is in the mind.