Gerard Manley Hopkins quote: What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be ...

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 wilderness yet.

~ Gerard Manley Hopkins ~

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