Constitutions of the Society of Jesus: A Critical Edition with the Complementary Norms, edited by Barton T. Geger, S.J.

And then the question, which Hopkins asked many times over during his life.Who would want to destroy this?Who would want to "fell" it, cut it away?Forget for a moment the economics of it all, the money, the money.Where would we be without all this "sweet wet" and "wilderness"?And then, as he insisted on doing when he composed his musical piece, though his audience failed to understand, he offers us a triple repetition with variations: "Of wet and of wilderness," then "wildness and wet," and finally: "Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.