The Story of the Green Turtle

The first land plants appeared on a bare surface where there was not even a muskrat pawful of soil to cover it. These courageous pioneers had to unlearn the ways of their algal ancestors, who were used to an easy life bathed in water and nutrients. The colonists evolved means of holding water and scavenging minerals bare rock with their membrane thin leaves. And change the world they did, leaf by tiny pelliased leaf, without roots or flowers or seeds or wood, or reallyuch, anything except their half inch tall selves. Their watery ancestry didn't equip them very well for pioneering, for living as the first immigrants on the back of the turtle. Imagine that moment