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In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Seneca the Younger
Nature, Long, Ashes
"Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.