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Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes about Nature

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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!

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”

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'.

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

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”

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