Literary notes about MATURE (AI summary)
The term "mature" is used across literature to convey both a literal and figurative sense of completion and refinement. In some works it designates the natural ripening process or full development of living things—whether referring to trees yielding their natural bounty [1] or processes that simply require the passage of time to reach fruition [2]. In other texts, it marks an evolution in intellectual or emotional depth; characters grow, ideas are crystallized through careful reflection, and decisions are reached with seasoned judgment [3] [4] [5]. At times, it even alludes to the culmination of artistic efforts or a final, perfected state after prolonged deliberation [6] [7].
- The average yield of a plantation of mature trees is about 535 pounds to the acre.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The fact that a process takes time to mature is so obvious a fact that we rarely make it explicit.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - These develop and mature along with their mental and bodily powers.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller - Dante describes himself as having begun the serious study of philosophy and theology only at the mature age of twenty-seven.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri - His imperturbable and mature calmness was that of an expert in possession of the facts, and to whom one’s perplexities are mere child’s-play.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - After mature reflection, it seems to me that this could not have been effected through natural selection.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - This book, her first mature experiment in writing, settles the question of her ability to write.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
