Walden

Explain the significance of the following quote please keep response concise and clear.

“Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-wood, which had stood in a farmer’s kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts — from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it; which was heard gnawing out for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn. Who does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality strengthened by hearing of this? Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under concentric layers of woodness in the dead dry life of society... may come forth from amidst society’s most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!”

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This quote uses a tale told in the area about rebirth that occurs at the least-expected time. The story of the "animal" whose birth takes place many years after the egg was laid is a perfect demonstration of why we should believe in "resurrection and immortality" as well as the beauty of that which is newborn and vividly alive to enjoy the "perfect summer" (the most wonderful time) of one's life.