Fractals!!!

This is not the first time I've come in contact with fractals. A math teacher of mine, in high school, was gracious enough to open my eyes to this fascinating art/math and I have been quite fond of them since. Fractals are fascinating because they are endless; they have no beginning, and no end. The fact that they are born from mathematical equations is another interesting quality of these psychedelic works. Due to their mathematical birth, it is easy to see why they are so perfect. Math is an exact science, and so to are these fractals. Yet they are not what one would expect to see in even the most radical math class. I often compare things I see everyday to fractals; I have a baseball card where the player is holding the same card in his hand. This is extremely "fractal-like." The card has no end... if I was to dive through the cards, each would be the same as the one preceding it, thus and infinite level of magnitude can be applied with the same result, just as with fractals.
I think we have all seen things of this nature at least some time in our lives. The book states that nature itself has these fractals in it which means that these magnificent works are all around us, everywhere we go, which is just another level of their intersting qualities.