Cosmic Tree
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 4:48 pm
"Curious, I say, and not sufficiently considered: how everything does cooperate with all;
not a leaf rotting on the highway but is indissoluble portion of solar and stellar systems;
no thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all men, and works sooner
or later, recognizably or unrecognizably, on all men! It is all a tree: circulation of sap and
influences, mutual communication of every minutest leaf with the lowest talon of a root,
with every other greatest and minutest portion of the whole."
--from "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History"
by Thomas Carlyle
not a leaf rotting on the highway but is indissoluble portion of solar and stellar systems;
no thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all men, and works sooner
or later, recognizably or unrecognizably, on all men! It is all a tree: circulation of sap and
influences, mutual communication of every minutest leaf with the lowest talon of a root,
with every other greatest and minutest portion of the whole."
--from "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History"
by Thomas Carlyle