“When you’re small,” said Nish, after a moment’s silence, “you survive by being patient, and clever. You can’t make big things happen all at once, so you do what little things you can. It’s not unlike seeing you want a pond and thinking of all the little steps you need to build that pond, and then taking those steps, one by one. Of course, the more steps, the harder it is to accomplish big things like this, when you don’t live long.”
