It is an agreeable change to cross a lake, after you have been shut up in the woods, not only on account of the greater expanse of water, but also of sky. It is one of the surprises which Nature has in store for the traveler in the forest. To look down, in this case, over eighteen miles of water, was liberating and civilizing even.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
The seasons change their manners, as the year
Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
—Yitzhak Shamir (b. 1915)