Ginsberg Michael Quotes by Gary Snyder

The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

— Gary Snyder

We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try…

— Gary Snyder

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us…

— Gary Snyder

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

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

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

“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

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

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

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet…

— Gary Snyder

“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

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

— Gary Snyder