"...real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root."

...real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. Even when we improve we never progress. For progress, the metaphor from the road, implies a man leaving his home behind him: but improvement means a man exalting the towers or extending the gardens of his home.

-The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)