The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.

F.T. McKinstry
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The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable. In this quote from the book "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin, she is describing her protagonist Ged as he becomes more powerful. He has been around for a long time and has seen the things that happen in his world.

As he matures and his power increases, he often tramples over the lives of others. He mentions that as he ages his silence intensifies and become more ominous. The idea is not that he is going to make everyone else silent or that they need to be silent but rather that as his power increases that people will fight over him as if they were fighting over the last bunker on earth with no hope of survival.

Source: Crowharrow

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