After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“We are, after all, an animal that was brought into being on this biosphere by these processes of sun and water and… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“If we are here for any good purpose at all (other than collating texts, running rivers, and learning the stars), I suppose… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life--he says it chills us and kills us.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share
You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“I have lived at Cold Mountain These thirty long years. Yesterday I called on friends and family: More than half had gone to the… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“In the mountains it's cold. Always been cold, not just this year. Jagged scarps forever snowed in Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your… — Gary Snyder Copy Share
