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The reluctant magic of becoming more than you were, usually while complaining about it.
means The ongoing process of increasing in size, number, maturity, or development over time.
from From Old English "growan," meaning to flourish, increase, or develop — used originally of plants and crops pushing up from the soil. It belongs to a Germanic family of green-things words, a likely cousin of "grass" and "green," all rooted in the same ancient sense of vegetation springing into life. The "-ing" simply turns the act into something perpetual and unfinished, which is exactly how it feels.
- bamboo speed
- Some species shoot up 35 inches in one day
- toward light
- Plants literally bend their bodies chasing the sun
- never stops
- Your nose and ears grow your entire life
- taller asleep
- You wake up about a centimeter taller daily
- rings tell all
- Trees record every drought in their trunk layers
chinese economy expansion — gdp grew from $150 billion in 1990 to $17.9 trillion in 2023
world population increase — reached 8 billion in november 2022, up from 6 billion in 1999