Gerard Manley Hopkins Quote

To know what creation is look at the size of the world. Speed of light: it would fly six or seven times around the world while the clock ticks once. Yet it takes thousands of years to reach us from the Milky Way.


In: Christopher Devlin, S.J., The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (p. 238) - Oxford University Press, Inc. 1959


To know what creation is look at the size of the world. Speed of light: it would fly six or seven times around the world while the clock ticks once....

To know what creation is look at the size of the world. Speed of light: it would fly six or seven times around the world while the clock ticks once....

To know what creation is look at the size of the world. Speed of light: it would fly six or seven times around the world while the clock ticks once....

To know what creation is look at the size of the world. Speed of light: it would fly six or seven times around the world while the clock ticks once....