Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

• And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn.
  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

  Weed, Nature, Long

  1881 'Inversnaid'.

• Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Nature, Stars, Fire

  'The Starlight Night' (written 1877)

• I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1954). “Poems and prose”

• As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Nature, Fire, Flames

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.55, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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