I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appals. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

-Dillard, Annie
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

-Dryden,John
  Dollabella.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 4, sc.1.

Even if I die in the service of this nation,I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood,I am sure, will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.

-Gandhi, Indira Priyad Arshini
  Speech at Orissa, 31 Oct, the day before her assassination.

I have always looked upon decayas being just as wonderful an expression of life as growth.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Wisdom of the Heart,'Reflections on Writing'.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Wisdom of the Heart,'The  Absolute Collective'.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

-Smiles, Samuel
  Self-Help, ch.1.

If this country is settled, it will be one of the finest Colonies under the Crown, suitable for the growth of anyand everything.

-Stuart,John McDouall
  On reaching the sea at the Gulf of Carpentaria. Journal entry, Jul.