As these ferns see the light of their first day, their destiny becomes apparent.
From spores under the cover of forest detritus,
the young plants scramble upward, wet and colicky,
far from the graceful, mature ferns they will grow to be, but on their way.
The nature or nurture debate is all but moot here.
They will become what they already are.
m1nute 
I love watching ferns unroll “wet and colicky.” Nice.