Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

White’s line treats waiting not as empty downtime but as a period with its own texture—“rich and steady”—because anticipation concentrates attention and gives ordinary moments a quiet intensity. The phrase “to happen or to hatch” suggests both human events and natural processes, implying that expectancy is woven into life at every scale: plans, seasons, creative work, even literal incubation. The quote gently reframes impatience: the value is not only in the arrival of the event but in the sustained, attentive interval beforehand, when hope, imagination, and observation are most active.