All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud.

[Eric Frost]

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)