wide-shadowing

Updated: May 15, 2025

"Nevertheless," continues he, "I too acknowledge the all-but omnipotence of early culture and nurture: hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree; either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one.

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh