vegetable-wise

Updated: June 18, 2025

Here is the point of junction the bond, as it were, between the three kingdoms: an animal growing vegetable-wise produces a mineral mass, extracted from the waters of the sea by an infinity of little living crucibles, who carry on under our eyes the work begun in the first ages of the globe, and quietly manufacture continents for the use of future generations.

Jean Macé - The History of a Mouthful of Bread : And its effect on the organization of men and animals