Many of my clients have received little packages of dry kernels of corn from me, at one point or another, in our work. Usually I suggest taking them home and putting them where they can be frequently seen, or even carried in a pocket. Well, it's a remarkable thing, a kernel of corn. Perhaps what's even more remarkable is that ancient kernels of corn, unearthed and planted, will sprout and produce a new plant. Even in modern times, corn will lay fallow in fields for years, then spontaneously grow, appearing suddenly and unexpectedly.
Scientists say the secrets lie in DNA, and that's perfectly possible.
Personally, though, I think it's also possible that it has something to do with the seeds ability to somehow sense that the time is right. It may be, in fact, that inside the corn there is some sort of ability to suss out the environment and determine that what's needed is indeed available. But somewhere else it was starting, and the changes did happen and are still happening. These days, though, I like to look at this story as part of a smaller, individual picture as well as the larger societal one. What's been locked up inside suddenly appears.