What functioned as therapy, doubly so when Brett and Wendy's only daughter, Arkie, died of cancer in 2001, grew more vital in the truest sense: a living ecosystem where previously there had been nothing.
Food aid is vital in the midst of the current disaster; growing more food in Africa, particularly, is vital for next year and beyond.
Beijing has long claimed the islands and land "features" within a nine-dash line drawn decades ago on maps of the South China Sea, a vital trade route where China is growing more assertive.
Is America growing more libertarian?
Ai has not stopped exhibiting since his arrest in 2011, and if anything his art has grown more antagonistic and more vital since being carted away by the Beijing police.
If anything, he has grown still more vital in the past decade, which saw the premieres of such masterpieces as "Company B" and "Piazzolla Caldera" (both of which will be performed along with "Arabesque" on Tuesday).
And as the days go on and you grow more attached to the people of Myanmar, this becomes a vital distinction.
With so many items whizzing around at more than 17,000 miles per hour and shattering as they crash, the threat to working satellites, which are vital to hurricane tracking, GPS systems and military surveillance, has grown more immediate.
While ultra-Orthodox Judaism grew more insular, and some varieties of Liberal Judaism moved ritual practice even farther away from traditional observance, a vital centre emerged, running from Reform Judaism to modern Orthodoxy.
He said that would "balance the needs of the city both in terms of the vital need to build a better transport system for Bristol and allowing the city to grow more of its own food".
