"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilde...

Photo by Ákos Szabó

Photo by Ian Turnell










More Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes
"All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow,...
"...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,
"...Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve:After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. Ten or twelve, only ten or twe...