Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

The most universal quality is diversity.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

All countries are particular and no models are perfect.

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

The wonders of nature are endless.