--- title: "3 Hiking Quotes By Gary Snyder" description: "3 Hiking quotes by Gary Snyder. Plus more from Gary Snyder and more Hiking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/gary-snyder-4502_etiquette_the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-becom_1135425.jpg" --- > [The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-become-the-etiquette-of-freedom/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/gary-snyder-4502_etiquette_the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-becom_1135425.jpg) > [Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/wilderness-is-a-place-where-the-wild-potential-is-fully-expressed-a/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/gary-snyder-4502_assembly_wilderness-is-a-place-where-the-wild-pot_2369940.jpg) > [I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/i-see-a-vision-of-a-great-rucksack-revolution-thousands-or-even/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/gary-snyder-4502_be-kind_i-see-a-vision-of-a-great-rucksack-revol_3092019.jpg) ## Other authors on Hiking - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-abbey-31690.jpg) Edward Abbey 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/edward-abbey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-muir-51985.jpg) John Muir 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/john-muir/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rebecca-solnit-77821.jpg) Rebecca Solnit 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/rebecca-solnit/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cheryl-strayed-23059.jpg) Cheryl Strayed 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/cheryl-strayed/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-o-douglas-95752.jpg) William O. Douglas 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/william-o-douglas/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jennifer-pharr-davis-48733.jpg) Jennifer Pharr Davis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/jennifer-pharr-davis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-g-m-trevelyan-36570.jpg) G. M. Trevelyan 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/g-m-trevelyan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-cynthia-tucker-25774.jpg) Colin Fletcher 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/colin-fletcher/) ## More by Gary Snyder > [The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-the-planet-is-to-stay-home/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/we-must-try-to-live-without-causing-unnecessary-harm-not-just-to/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/doom-scenarios-even-though-they-might-be-true-are-not-politically-or/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/sometime-in-the-last-ten-years-the-best-brains-of-the-occident/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/a-great-poet-does-not-express-his-or-her-self-he-expresses-all-of-our/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/you-should-really-know-what-the-complete-natural-world-of-your-region/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/i-have-lived-at-cold-mountain-these-thirty-long-years-yesterday-i/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/but-if-you-do-know-what-is-taught-by-plants-and-weather-you-are-in-on/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/in-paul-friedrich-s-book-proto-indo-european-trees-he-identifies-the/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/gratitude-to-the-great-sky-who-holds-billions-of-stars-and-goes-yet/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/in-the-mountains-it-s-cold-always-been-cold-not-just-this-year-jagged/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/when-the-mind-is-exhausted-of-images-it-invents-its-own/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/forests-in-the-tropics-are-cut-to-make-pasture-to-raise-beef-for-the/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [“The blue mountains are constantly walking." Dōgen is quoting the Chan master Furong. -- "If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/the-blue-mountains-are-constantly-walking-d-gen-is-quoting-the-chan/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) > [Thought is just an apprehension of touch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/thought-is-just-an-apprehension-of-touch/) [Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hiking/gary-snyder/#itemlist", "name": "3 Hiking Quotes By Gary Snyder", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gary Snyder" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-become-the-etiquette-of-freedom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/gary-snyder-4502_etiquette_the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-becom_1135425.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/gary-snyder-4502_etiquette_the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-becom_1135425.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/gary-snyder-4502_etiquette_the-lessons-we-learn-from-the-wild-becom_1135425.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.” — Gary Snyder", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. 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