Mid North Coast Now: Meet Bootawa's Jim Frazier

By Julia Driscoll
Updated January 15 2016 - 2:15pm, first published 12:04pm

“Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.”

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

These lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnet God’s Grandeur, published in 1918, speak of man’s loss of contact with the environment. 

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