So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.
Source: Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid, Pt. II, 1969.
-- Judith Rossner, (Mar 31 1935-2005), US novelist; She is best known for her novel Looking for Mr Goodbar, 1975.