• What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  English poet and Jesuit 1844-1889
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. wilderness
2. world
3. weeds

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What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. by : Gerard Manley Hopkins

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