earth-change

Updated: May 11, 2025

Language is the soil of thought; and our own especially is a rich leaf-mould, the slow growth of ages, the shed foliage of feeling, fancy, and imagination, which has suffered an earth-change, that the vocal forest, as Howell called it, may clothe itself anew with living green.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859