heaven-consuming

Updated: July 4, 2025

But the towering and tropical vision of things as they really are the gigantic daisies, the heaven-consuming dandelions, the great Odyssey of strange-coloured oceans and strange-shaped trees, of dust like the wreck of temples, and thistledown like the ruin of stars all this colossal vision shall perish with the last of the humble.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - The Defendant