Roger Deakin writes “My contention is that in every weed, bramble, and migrating bird, the wilderness asserts itself, so when Hopkins wrote ‘Long live the weeds and wilderness yet’ at the end of Inversnaid, he was articulating the essential drive of nature towards the re-establishment of the wilderness”.

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm. Roger Deakin. Penguin. 2008.

Inversnaid. Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1881.