Cardinal Growth

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“Time and I against any two.”
—Spanish proverb.

Quoted by Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV.

“Here commences what was called, twenty years ago, the best timber land in the State. This very spot was described as “covered with the greatest abundance of pine,” but now this appeared to me, comparatively, an uncommon tree there,—and yet you did not see where any more could have stood, amid the dense growth of cedar, fir, etc.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)